date:Jul 19, 2012
expected to continue. Many producers are also starting to take low-productivity sows to market, something Hurt says should cause a rebound in the market by next year, if producers can hang on until then.
The decision to liquidate sows will take a bit more time, but that could begin by the end of the summer, and especially this fall. Sows that go to market and are not re-bred in August will not have a litter in December and will not have market ready hogs early next summer, he says. The important