Ag economists are in agreement that recovery to the overall US

economy will continue to play a significant role in the ability for the pork

industry to rebound.

But, University of Missouri livestock economist Scott Brown

says the slower than anticipated recovery to the overall economy is becoming

increasingly more worrisome.  “As I think

about the report it’s a bad combination of more hogs than we would have anticipated

and frankly not that much adjustment in breeding inventory relative to what we

would have thought,” he says.

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