7-13 news: Pork production to drop 10 percent today
The plants are being idled due to tight supplies of hogs and slow pork sales. Tyson announced that it will also run some of its other pork plants at reduced levels this week “We have had dismal cutout values,” said Ron Plain, an agricultural economist at the University of Missouri. “It is largelt related to the worldwide recession. Pork exports are doing very poorly and the U.S. economy is doing poorly. There is just not a lot of demand for high quality foods.”