{"id":24937,"date":"2025-03-28T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=24937"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:30:19","slug":"u-s-hog-inventory-below-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/u-s-hog-inventory-below-a-year-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. hog inventory below a year ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>JOHN PERKINS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brownfield Ag News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. hog herd got a little bit smaller over the past year and could see further declines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USDA says the domestic hog and pig inventory on March 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2025 was 74.512 million head, slightly below March 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2024, when many analysts had been expecting an increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That included a 1% decline in the breeding herd to 5.98 million head and a modest decrease for the market herd to 68.532 million head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other areas of the report also came in below pre-report estimates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The December through February pig crop was fractionally lower than last year at 33.701 million head and while there were a record number of pigs saved per litter at 11.65, there were a few less saved than anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farrowing intentions for March through May and June through August are also expected to be under year ago levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>52% of the total U.S. swine inventory were on contract operations larger than 5,000 head, steady with the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The numbers look friendly for cash, wholesale, and futures prices, but that will also depend on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN PERKINS Brownfield Ag News The U.S. hog herd got a little bit smaller over the past year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-24937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ag","tag-ag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-Ag-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24938,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24937\/revisions\/24938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}