Pork and Chicken prices

Adirondack case guy

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I saw on the MSN page that 5500 pigs and 3.4 million chickens were killed by Hurricane Florence.
That will put a dent into the food chain. Likely lots more farm animals that were not reported. What the heck do they do with all those carcasses??
Loren
 
Last I knew the total hog slaughter in the USA was over 100 million per year, 5500 head isnt much of a dent by percentage. Dont know the chicken numbers but I wouldn't be surprised if the percentages are similar. Might be some local affect but a pretty small bump in the big picture.
 
One of the rivers near Fayetteville was reported 26 ft over flood stage, highest ever recorded. Bet a few chickens were floating downstream. Also heard 4 major manure lagoons failed and many others overflowed their levies. News showed many houses with water in them, not just a few inches, more like a few feet.
 
The big chickens operations over in the Shenandoah Valley have been leaving chickens in the houses when they pick them up for the growers to deal with,one grower told me they left
6,000 chickens in one of his houses.So there must have been a surplus.
 
To think that just because the plant is owed by Chinese, that the pork would be destined for China, is overly simplistic, bordering on silly. Smithfield Foods is just an investment company, that yet another ? off shore? owners have sunk money into, to make more money.
 
There's over 300,000 hogs and over 24 million chickens processed in the US every single day. Those numbers won't even cause a hiccup.
 
There is a surplus of pork in this country now because of the chinese tariff, won't make any difference at all, except for the smell until they're all buried!
 
Well I guess they are the ones being silly as they issued a statement when they bought Smithfield that they could raise pork cheaper in the US and ship it to China than raise it there.
 
In the Midwest, raising livestock has long been the traditional way to increase the value of feed grains. I have to wonder how many new hog farms and new pork processing plants are being quoted right now for other grain producing countries like Argentina, Brazil and the Ukraine?
 
(quoted from post at 12:26:47 09/19/18) In the Midwest, raising livestock has long been the traditional way to increase the value of feed grains. I have to wonder how many new hog farms and new pork processing plants are being quoted right now for other grain producing countries like Argentina, Brazil and the Ukraine?

ss55, you are correct, conventional wisdom has long been that a lot more money is made on grains by running it through an animal. It just stands to reason that other grain exporters will jump on the chance to get a bigger share of the pie when the opportunity is offered.
 

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