Pork prices plummet as pigs pile up
Flu fears, corn costs to blame, experts say
Posted: September 6, 2009 at 5:55 a.m.
Pigs crowd the corner of their pen last week on the Pope County hog farm owned by Charlie and Tommy Metz. The brothers say they lose between $10 and $20 on each pig they sell right now.
When brothers Charlie and Tommy Metz loaded 500 feeder pigs onto trucks destined for finishing farms in the upper Midwest in late August, the London-area farmers figured they lost between $10 and $20 on each pig.
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Business, Pages 73, 80 on 09/06/2009
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