date:Aug 12, 2014
Raising costs declined three per cent to $66 per hundredweight. A 10 per cent decline in head sold was partially offset by three per cent heavier weights.
International
International operating margins grew to eight per cent, primarily because of significantly higher earnings in the company's vertically integrated operations in Poland and Romania. In both countries, lower grain costs drove a double-digit drop in raising costs and more than offset a decline in live hog prices, leading to conside