After years of fighting an uphill battle, the protein industry soldiers on and may be looking forward to low feed costs, increased demand and more exports in 2014.
The trouble with making predictions for an agriculture-based industry is that uncontrollable factors have a funny way of intruding.
But all things considered — barring another drought or new disease outbreak, of course — “2014 could be one of the best years for the livestock industry in a decade,” says D. Scott Brown, Ph.D., livestock economist, for Columbia, Mo.-based University of Missouri.