Source: Rhonda Garrison, SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 1/6/17

The last USDA Hogs and Pigs report issued in December estimated this year’s supply of pork will be larger than most analysts expect. U.S. pork producers, in the last quarter of 2016 set a pigs per litter record,10.63. For the whole of the year, the new annual record is 10.5 pigs per litter. 

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