Chris Hurt (born July 5, 1972)[1] is an American politician. A Republican, he represents District 82, which contains parts of Lauderdale, Haywood, and Crockett counties, in the Tennessee House of Representatives. (wikipedia)
The National Weather Service is calling for intensification in that area and broadening of the drought into the central Plains and western Corn Belt by this spring.
Summer prices may be a bit discouraging this year having averaged above $50 for the past two years.
There are two concerns in U.S. cattle markets. First, there?s the concern that we would lose beef exports.
Integrated hog operations tend to like to have their own feed-milling capacity. They tend to locate hogs generally within 50 to 60 miles of that feed mill.
What we've seen with the mobility of labor, particularly from Mexico, has enabled that industry to stay in the United States. It's entirely possible that if labor had not been mobile that parts of the industry would have to moved to other countries like Mexico.
I think the reaction on the consumer side will be relatively mild.
That's going to be a wonderful opportunity for retailers to lower prices at the supermarket.
The financial tide finally turned to black in the spring of 2004 and has been on a winning streak ever since.
Perhaps this is signaling a reversal of the longer-run trend of the breeding herd moving away from the eastern Corn Belt. In 1990, 27 percent of the U.S. breeding herd was in the eastern Corn Belt. That portion declined steadily to a low of only 17.2 percent in 2004.
Overall, the U.S. breeding herd has been trending lower as a result of the sow herd shifting to Canada and as a result of higher productivity.
