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Didn't expect this.  A worldwide bacon shortage.


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Might want to get your fill of ham this year, because "a world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable," according to an industry trade group.

Blame the drought conditions that blazed through the corn and soybean crop this year. Less feed led to herds declining across the European Union "at a significant rate," according to the National Pig Association in Britain.

And the trend "is being mirrored around the world," according to a release. The announcement was first reported in the Financial Times.

In the second half of next year, the number of slaughtered pigs could fall 10%, doubling the price of European pork, according to the release.

The trade group urged supermarkets to pay pig farmers a fair price for the meat to help cover the drought-related losses.

In U.S. warehouses, pork supply soared to a record last month, rising 31% to 580.8 million pounds at the end of August from a year earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The surge came as farmers scaled down their herds as feeding the animals became increasingly expensive.

In July, global food prices leaped 10% from the month before, according to the World Bank. Maize and wheat jumped 25% while soybeans rose 17 percent.

Well lets hope SW Asia dont decide to buy large stock piles of pork n throw it overboard just to dispite america n find a new way to screw us other than on crude oil.

So my first thought... Will this also affect the price of wild hogs?

it could possobly if you could convince the anericans that wild pork is edible  lol  everyone i ever talked to that didn't hunt pigs the first question they ask was if they was any good to eat  lol . and i have to remind them that free ranging was how all pork was raised in their grandparents day  ..

Nooooo!!!!!! :( no bacon? I will starve!

You may take my freedom but you will never take my (pause) BACOOOOONNNNNNNNN!

Makes me feel good about my purchase yesterday, I bought 3 feeder pigs. 

Never a shortage of ANY pork cuts in my freezer ;)

Let me know if u find a cheap way to feed them chris... I had a fortune in mine by the time i slaughtered them. Surely there is a cheap way

dog food prices might go up again...

yeah the feed i'm feeding now is porcine based .  feeding pigs check out and hit the day old bread stores and poor the wheat shorts to em . but anything over 225 to 240 lbs is past the butchering prime ,  alot of folks feed em too long .

Reuben dog food seems to go up $1.00 a bag every 2-4 weeks

I need my bacon!

Peaches,

I have a deal with 4 area feed stores to buy all of their surplus feed, torn bags, or bags with weevils. I end up with several tons of cattle feed per month at very good prices. I always pass on the pig feed... Now I will start buying the pig feed too. Just this week I was offered two pallets of Lindners 632 @$2.50 bag.  That feed runs about 31.00 bag retail. This past weekend I picked up one pallet of show calf starter, and a pallet of all stock, for a total of $96.00. Bags had just passed the 90 day mark in inventory, so they sold it for a little over a dollar each.

Did they ever go down?

Any ole subway throws their bread every night if ya don't mind digging in the trash pigs eat for cheap

I got a good deal here I get 4 pallets stacked full of. Bread from second harvest food bank almost once a week and its hard to givve the number 2 away rd here I craigslist free breed. For hogs and all and the trash men bitch bout having to load it up when I cantuse it all and it goes the hard moldy hell

all that aside may be a good year to fire up the smoke house and start pumping out some boot leg wild hog bacon   lol