Niman Ranch announced it is 100% audited, compliant and ready for implementation with fresh pork under California’s Proposition 12 and Massachusetts’ Question 3.
“USDA’s inaction amplifies the economic uncertainty facing hog farmers at a time when profitability for farrow-to-finish hog operations is already at its worst level in more than two decades,” the committee said.
Feed demand in China is forecast to rise in marketing year 2022-23 due to recovering demand for hog feed, according to a Global Agricultural Information Network report from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The inventory of all hogs and pigs on June 1, 2022 was 72.5 million head, down 1% from a year ago and down slightly from March 1, 2022 according to data from the US Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).