McLean County Farm Bureau

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• Managing Supply: Balancing Fewer Farrowings with Record Litter Sizes
  A small increase in lighter weight hogs partly reflects that December through February pig crop is up 0.6% from a year ago, despite a 1.5% decrease in sows farrowed, which was again more than offset by another record 11.90 pigs per litter for the period or 2.0% more than a year ago. Continued productivity growth […]
• The Strait of Hormuz: Why Global Trade Dependency Turns a Localized Conflict into a Global Crisis
  When war disrupts regions that are critical to the production or movement of major commodities, prices often spike first before markets can assess how long the supply shock will last.…
• Another Round of Crop Insurance; Update from the Policy Design Lab
  Political power will fix nothing of its own volition—it only operates in one direction. This means that fixing the federal crop insurance program likely has only two catalysts: either a collapse in which crop insurance can no longer defy reality and the fundamentals; or rival political powers achieve changes that improve the program’s integrity and […]