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16 wrz 2018 · The Sioux City plant is now running near its 10,200-per-day capacity, while the Coldwater plant is harvesting more than 9,000 head per day and still gaining on its total capacity of 12,000 head per day. The Windom plant has a capacity of 5,100 head per day but is running at 4,000 to 4,500 per day.
- Slaughter capacity increase finally here (almost) - National Hog Farmer
The long-anticipated and long-awaited increase in U.S. hog...
- More hog slaughter records - National Hog Farmer
A new record of 2,829,494 hogs was slaughtered during the...
- Slaughter capacity increase finally here (almost) - National Hog Farmer
27 lip 2017 · The long-anticipated and long-awaited increase in U.S. hog slaughter capacity is finally at hand. It began slowly last September when MoonRidge Pork opened its plant in Pleasant Hope, Mo., and continued this spring with the opening of Prime Pork in Windom, Minn.
25 sty 2021 · A new record of 2,829,494 hogs was slaughtered during the week ending January 9, 2021, breaking the old record set in December 2019. Last week’s hog slaughter totaled 2.738 million head, up 1.1% year over year.
Hog slaughter totaled 9.94 million head, down 5 percent from February 2021. The average live weight was up 2 pounds from the previous year, at 293 pounds. Lamb and mutton production, at 9.2 million pounds, was down 14 percent from February 2021. Sheep slaughter totaled 143,400 head, 12 percent below last year.
Labor use on hog farms declined by 83 percent between 1992 and 2015, as the number of hours required to produce 100 pounds of weight gain shrank from 1.2 hours to 0.2 hours (table 7). For all types of hog farms, 100 pounds of weight gain required 6 times the number of labor hours in 1992 than in 2015.
Commercial hog slaughter totaled 128.0 million head, 2 percent higher than 2022 with 99.5 percent of the hogs slaughtered under federal inspection. The average live weight was down 2 pounds from last year, at 287 pounds.
National Daily Direct Hog Prior Day Report - Slaughtered Swine/LM_HG201 Producer Sold: NEG
