USDA released its quarterly Hogs and Pigs report today. The inventory of all hogs and pigs on 1 December was 75.5 million head, up 1 percent from December 2024, and up slightly from 1 September 2025.
Breeding inventory, at 5.95 million head, was down 1 percent from last year and up slightly from September. Market hog inventory, at 69.6 million head was up 1 percent from last year and up slightly from September.
The September to November pig crop, at 34.34.99 million head, was even with last year. Sows farrowing during this period totaled 2.93 million head, also even with last year. The sows farrowed during this quarter represented 49 percent of the breeding herd. The total number of hogs under contract, owned by operations wit...
There was heavy volume exiting soybeans, which dragged down the broader market today. The lack of a specific Chinese buying commitment for soybeans undermined speculators who had placed bets on state-directed trade. But even the Chinese do not totally ignore market fundamentals. They may still...
On Tuesday, 12 May, WPI reported on an Executive Order being prepared by the Trump Administration to suspend tariff rate quotas (TRQs) on beef from all exporters for 200 days as a means of addressing high beef prices in the United States. After considerable pushback from cattle producer groups,...
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