Market Preview: Understanding Hog Price Reports
US - "I get questions all the time about USDA’s hog price reports. It is pretty amazing how the mandatory price reporting (MPR) law, which passed in 1999, created so many reports with so many numbers. As I will only scratch the surface with this column, here are a few characteristics of the reports that are important," writes Steve Meyer in this week's Market Preview from National Hog Farmer magazine.