In spite of, or perhaps because of the challenges our industry has faced this past year, we have still enjoyed some success. The current demand for pork is high, and we have had record increases in retail sales.
Food safety is a priority issue, and pork safety is well ahead of beef and poultry.
For these and many other reasons, we believe there remain long term opportunities for profitable pork production. The keys to pork production's future opportunities are in knowing and controlling costs of production. Producers don't have to be big to be efficient. Contrary to popular opinion, many small to mid-sized producers have a lower cost of production than the mega producers. Focusing your efforts on analyzing and reducing cost of production begins with questioning everything from inputs to production practices to marketing.