Chris Hurt says Same Pounds of Pork & Same Corn Fed

Friday USDA released the Quarterly Hogs & Pigs report. During an interview late Friday afternoon Purdue Extension Ag Economist Chris Hurt said the figures show, as it relates to the amount of corn consumed by the nation's hog herd, the lower number of animals coming to market now because of PEDv is offset by heavier weights. Essentially, Hurt says feeding fewer pigs to heavier weights consumes about the same amount of corn (he thinks) and produces about the same amount of pork.



You may read Chris Hurt's thoughts on the livestock market once a month in The Weekly Outlook posted to the FarmDocDaily website during the noon hour on Mondays.

USDA June 2014 Grain Stocks & Acreage Reports

Grain Stocks

	USDA June Estimate	Average	Ranges	June 2013	March 2014
Corn		3,723	3,046-4,050	2,766	7,006
Soybean		382	334-440	435	992
Wheat		597	561-633	718	1,056

Acreage

	USDA June Estimate	Average	Range	March 2014	2013
Corn		91.709	91.00-92.50	91.691	95.365
Soybean		82.213	81.30-84.00	81.493	76.533
All Wheat		55.777	54.80-56.50	55.815	56.156
Spring		11.937	11.30-12.20	12.009	11.596
Durum		1.795	1.69- 1.90	1.799	1.470

Wheat Head Scab in SRW Crop

The nation's wheat crop is suffering from too much rainfall. It is causing harvest delays in the hard red winter wheat growing regions of the southwestern United States, and the development of disease issues in the southern Illinois soft red winter wheat crop.

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