Dramatic rebound in pigs saved per litter

The United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2024, was 74.6 million head, a 1% increase from last year, but a 2% drop from last quarter.A highlight of the latest Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report published Thursday by the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service was average pigs saved per litter. NASS reported a record high of 11.53 for the December-February period, up 4.6%.“We went three years without growing this, and I think it was because we were dealing with height