date:May 14, 2014
ry. The March figure of $10.89 was 2.5 per cent higher than one year ago and the highest figure for March since 2003. As can be seen in Figure 1, this years performance was actually better than is indicated by the 2.5 per cent year-on-year gain because it is being compared to an unusually large figure for last year one that was driven by U.S. consumers taking more pork when Russia banned imports of U.S. product allegedly over concerns about ractopamine.
Figure 1
The months excellent perform