Yall hear bacon/porks gonna get high priced?

We've always had problem with the food system from the dawn of time. Humans have learned to deal with the challenges and survive. This is just another challenge for us to overcome.

PEDV is not the only reason for rising pork prices, part of the reason is industry contraction because of all time high feed costs. The PEDV virus will limit the ability of the pork complex to react to market signals for expansion.

whenever bacon or pork is on sale cheap and I don't have a lot I buy it up and freeze it, have 4 bacons and 2 pork loins, and 4 packages of pork chops left in freezer and pork and bacon are on sale at our store in the flyer this week

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Haypoint, If the disease too 100% of all p[igs born, and its been known of for a year, There would be Very few hogs alive now.

I think it's just a ploy to get those nasty dirty animals out of the food stream if ya know what I mean...

I can't wait to get my own pigs... mmm... pork..

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I'm 38 and remember bacon being as little as .99¢ lb. Also remember sugar coming in 5lb bags and costing $1 and gas under $1. Wages ain't kept up with nothing but electronics.

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There are growing concerns over chronic wasting Disease in deer and Elk in this country. Cattle catching brucellosis from Infected Yellowstone Bison is a concern. Teams of Veterinarians and Field Workers in Michigan tested 25,000 cattle for TB, following discovery of a TB infected herd. No idea where the TB came from. Hundreds of miles from TB infected deer areas.
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"We've always had problem with the food system from the dawn of time. We have learned to deal with the challenges and survive. This is just another challenge for us to overcome. " quoted by the last Passenger Pigeon.

Factory farms are probably safer than small farms because they usually have very strict disease control systems in place. I don't know any small farmers which have a disinfectant boot wash at the entrance to their barns.

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If this was GC or politics I'd have to say something about evil big pharma

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As to the guy selling the pigs at 250# for $100, mighta raised his own grain, and found it5 easier to feed it through pigs, than to scoop a load into a pk and take it to town,

I doubt nowadays, if they would even take just a pk load. Dad did that, and ive scooped corn into a 52 Chevy pk with grain racks so dad would have some spending money on Sat.

I know in some areas the question will be the anticipated impact on wild hog population, not everyone will be sad about reducing the wild hogs.
We don't have the wild hog problem here in Michigan, but the amount of destruction they cause in other areas of the U.S. is just amazing.

Same way White Nose Syndrome has spread among the bat populations....

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Michigan has hundreds of wild hogs, perhaps thousands, in nearly every county. Brought here for hunt clubs and as breeding stock for hunt clubs. They didn't respect fences. Any hunter can shoot any they see. Michigan does have a Wild Hog problem. If this disease does get into Michigan's Wild Hog population, it will quickly spread to commercial operations.

Makes sense before the outbreak Tysons was building one of the largest Poultry Processing Plants in the world in China. Now take in consideration who was President at the time. Bill Clinton once Governor of the top poultry producing states where Tysons was king. Outbreak in China, Tysons says no problem we will supply the Chicks to the growers.

If you will check at the time Tyson Stock was at an all time high.

Just can't help but think of all the other diseases lately in domestic and wild animals.

big rockpile

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I can't speak to high pork prices anywhere but here in Oklahoma...but after new year, the price of pork breakfast sausage had jumped over $1 per one pound package except for Hormel. If any of you have ever eaten Hormel breakfast sausage you know it has all the flavor of well worn Nikes and thus the price for hormel HAS to stay low or no one would buy it. But truly, until I can grow my own, I just don't want to live in a world without Jimmy Dean. I may have to get a part time job to supplement my income to pay for my habit. Geez.....

As far as Wild Hogs I like going out get couple hundred pounds of meat with one shot on something all I spent was a Bullet.

Most here stay close to water.

big rockpile

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That would indicate max production to me.

Any one notice all the problems are traced back to big ag. So far I've not seen one single problem traced back to the little guy they're trying to put out of business through government action.

The more I read this thread the more I believe it to be a contrived marketing ploy to raise the price like a few things in the recent past.