July 10, 2015
US swine industry on track to recovery after PED crisis: report
Producers' margins have been in "pretty good shape" since the beginning of May, according to John Nalivka, principal of Sterling Marketing.
Nalivka said that producers were making US$20-30 per head since the start of May. "Even with prices well below a year ago, that's a pretty long run of profitability. All the indicators are in place that those margins will stay in pretty good shape."
The June 2015 Hogs and Pigs report supported claims of US recovery from the devastating Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus (PEDv).
Jim Robb, director of the Livestock Marketing Information Center in Lakewood, Colorado lends support to such claims. "We're back on the long-term rates of growth, pre-PEDv in terms of pigs per litter," Robb said. "We're back on year-to-year growth rates that are very much in line with historical patterns."
Iowa's inventory reached 21 million hogs and pigs, and North Carolina's numbers were eight million. Minnesota ranked second in pork production in June 2015, with 8.05 million hogs and pigs on farm.