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Lower pork costs also driven by lower meal costs

2015-09-07 22:39:00| National Hog Farmer

By Chris Hurt, Department of Agricultural Economics Purdue University Soybean meal is an important but an "economically" secondary feed ingredient in hog diets compared to corn. My estimates suggest that soybean meal costs have been about 22 percent of the total costs of raising hogs over the past decade, compared to 32 percent for corn. read more

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