Hogs: Removing The Canadian Corn Countervail
KANSAS - Recently released figures document that Canada is producing fewer pigs this year than last, with the first quarter pig crop for 2006 down 2% (about 150,000 pigs) while the pig crop from the last quarter of 2005 was down nearly a half a million pigs. Yet, we have imported 250,000 more feeder pigs from Canada so far in 2006 than we did during the same period in 2005. Clearly, if Canada is producing fewer feeder pigs but sending more feeder pigs to the United States, conditions can’t be financially conducive to feeding pigs in Canada.