Last Friday’s hogs and pigs report showed the largest US inventory of pigs on record at 68.395 million pigs. While this sounds like a lot of pigs (and it is), it is still fewer pigs than the recent reduction in … Continue reading
It’s 7 am on Friday morning in Xiamen City, China and my most recent trip to China is rapidly coming to an end. I am scheduled to visit a swine farm today. I have no idea if I will see … Continue reading
I’m writing this week’s thoughts as I sit in the MSP airport on my way to China. I will be working with the US Soybean Export Council and Chinese pork industry people on this trip. Some of the attendees at … Continue reading
In the upper Midwest, grain producers are preparing for bin-busting yields. For many corn growers, this means getting as much storage capacity cleared on-farm as possible to avoid harvest delays because of long lines at country elevators. This means quite … Continue reading