On Oct. 13 USDA
reported hogs, on average, weighed 272.6 lbs. in the key Iowa/Minnesota markets, up nearly two lbs. from the previous week and up 3.7 lbs. from a year earlier.
Growth was slowed last year by being fed last year’s poor-quality corn from last year’s harvest.
This year, hogs should continue to get heavier on the efficiencies of cool weather and better grain.
“Guys are saying there is an almost overnight difference is how hogs are responding to the new corn,” said Rich Nelson, analyst at Allendale Inc.
