Experiencing a lasting and meaningful rally in hog prices in the face of this level of production is extremely unlikely.  

Tumultuous market conditions and repeated ad-hoc disaster payments highlight need for improved longer-term, market-based support for livestock producers.

Subsidies have been added and are based on the deductible selected by the producer.

It takes strong leadership, strategic decisions and wisdom to foresee and forestall crisis.

It appears that a sustained period of low prices is necessary before a real and sustained contraction in the industry occurs.

Attorney says having written plan before disaster hits will eliminate added turmoil, stress.

The one number you need to continue to watch is the weekly slaughter numbers and see how they track from a year ago.

Online dashboard allows user to filter by commodity, estimate potential productivity losses due to COVID-19 farm worker illnesses at state, county level. 

Producers need to be careful to not look into the rear view mirror, because it's a new environment and rules have changed.

There will be a pork industry once we get through this pandemic. I encourage all of you to put meaning and action behind your operation. The clock is ticking.