20 August 2015 | Pigs | 7142 views

China’s incredible shrinking hog herd

The astonishing drop of the Chinese hog and sow herd will impact the entire global pork market in the remainder of 2015 and into 2016. For 2015, Chinese pork production is forecast to plummet by 3.7 million tonnes (6.5 percent), to 53 million tonnes in 2015.