Hog Outlook: 2015 Commercial Hog Slaughter Up
US - For 2015, US commercial hog slaughtered totaled roughly 115,391,900 million head. That was up 8 per cent from 2014 and the second highest year ever, after 2008. Don't be surprised if 2016 hog slaughter breaks the 2008 record, write Ron Plain and Scott Brown, Ag Economics, MU.