US PORK PRODUCTION RISE WILL CONTINUE IN 2015, ALTHOUGH GROWTH RATES MAY SLACKEN – EXPERTS

AMERICAN pigmeat analysts have conformed to globalmeatnews.com that the recovery in US pork production will be sustained, with the pigmeat industry recovering strongly from the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) outbreak.The comments come after the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasted earlier this month that American commercial pork production was set to reach 23.9 billion pounds for the year ending September 2015, exceeding the country’s beef output for the first time after 62 years.The forecast in USDA’s World Agriculture Supply and Demand ...


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