The Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report for the June-August quarter will be released on Thursday. This is an interesting report as it covers the period in which Prop 12 has been implemented and the only two months so far in the year (July and August) where producers margins have been in black. Analysts’ pre-report expectations are that the swine herd will hold mostly steady with last year, but the small declines would result in the smallest inventory of market hogs, and the smallest overall swine herd, since 2017 at 73.6 million head. The September record was in 2019, at 78.6 million head, when ASF was an issue in China and U.S. exports were at record highs. In 2020 exports broke that record, with a large mix of whole and half...
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