Pork supply grows due to production increase, drop in Chinese depend
Pork stockpiles in the U.S. rose 5.8 percent at the end of November from a year earlier, the government said, as production increased and demand from China declined. According to Bloomberg News, warehouses held 494.9 million pounds of pork, up from 468 million on Nov. 30, 2010.
Production in the first 10 months of the year totaled 18.6 billion pounds, up 1.6 percent from the same time last year.