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Livestock NRDC Sets Meeting With Hog Industry to Discuss Market Stability China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will hold a private meeting with hog industry representatives tomorrow in Beijing. This will include leadership from two industry associations and eight companies in the hog producing and meat processing sectors. The named companies include Muyuan Foodstuffs, Wens Group, New Hope Group, Tech-Bank Company, Shineway, Yurun, Jinluo, and Beijing Ershang Group. The impetus for this gathering with the NRDC clearly points to the strong recovery in live hog prices since June. From the third week in June through mid-July, the national live hog price skyrocketed by 26.8 percent.  In some places, upticks were...

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