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September was the eighth consecutive profitable month for hog sales, but it was the lowest monthly profit in this streak.

A new record of 2,829,494 hogs was slaughtered during the week ending January 9, 2021, breaking the old record set in December 2019. Last week’s hog slaughter totaled 2.738 million head, up 1.1% year over year. Since the start of December, hog slaughter has been down 0.9%, which is 1.6% lower than indicated by the December market hog inventory survey. Ron Plain Commercial hog slaughter last year totaled a record 131.5 million head, 1.6 million (1.3%) more than the year before. Hog slaughter in 2020 was record high for the fifth year in a row. Commercial pork production in 2020 totaled a rec...

Talking about the politics of food, our food system, how we get the food that we eat, pink slime, et cetera. the agricultural department's food safety and inspection service has proposed a new inspection system for poultry slaughter. it's known for critical control points. what that means is they plan to eliminate 800 poultry inspector positions and allow companies to speed up processing from 140 chickens per minute to 200 and also remove the external usda government employee inspectors who are now in the plants and allow the processing facilities to monitor themselves. >> what could possibly ...