date:May 30, 2012
imals for slaughter, but animals with all of the best genetics the US has developed, the future potential of that market begins to look somewhat limited as the Chinese begin to gear up to move hog production out of the backyards of millions of farmers and into modern high-production facilities like those used across much of the U.S., says Daryll Ray, ag policy specialist and director of the University of Tennessee's Agricultural Policy Analysis Center.
But, that's not all bad for U.S. ag export