Chair Andy Cardy stands with the winning pork carcass sides at a competition held during the recent Brandon Hog and Livestock Show.

Carcass competition spices up Hog and Livestock Show

Slumping prices have created trying times in the industry, but producer interest was high at trade show

Glacier FarmMedia – Anyone who wanted to meet a young, competitive and chatty hog producer last week just had to hang around outside the glass-fronted hog cooler at the recent Brandon Hog and Livestock Show. Throughout the event, groups of young men, mostly Hutterites, approached the glass and appraised the top five carcasses on display.



China’s demand for U.S. pork so far has been disappointing, analysts say.
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Smaller U.S. swine herd likely as Prop 12 takes effect, think tank says 

Canadian pork sector concerned the animal welfare law will act as a non-tariff trade barrier 

The cost of compliance with a California animal welfare law, which takes full effect on New Year’s Day, will likely shrink the U.S. national hog herd and lead to further consolidation, a Washington State think tank says. “No one will be spared the change in market pressures,” wrote Pam Lewison, director for the Washington Policy