US Farms To Produce More Pork Than Beef, First Time Since 1950s
October 14, 2014 | 1 min to read
The U.S. government on Friday raised its pork production forecast for the calendar year ending September 2015 that shows pork surpassing beef for the first time since 1952 as hog farmers rapidly recover from a deadly pig virus.
In the monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), the U.S. Department of Agriculture raised the commercial pork production forecast for 2015 to 23.9 billion pounds.
That is a 2.6 percent upward revision from last month's data, a 5.0 percent production increase versus 2014 and for the first time exceeds beef output in 62 years.
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