date:Jun 11, 2014
What many had feared or at least anticipated has come to fruition as April US pork exports declined sharply from Marchs surprisingly strong showing.
March shipments, of course, were impacted somewhat by panic buying related to porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) just as we saw in the US and April was really the first month for which exports would have been impacted by Marchs rapidly rising wholesale prices.
April pork exports amounted to 436.019 million pounds carcass weight, 9.8 per cent