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April 30, 2024 | John Payne, Ag Risk Management Advisor

Is a Bear in the Hog Market?

Is a Bear in the Hog Market?

With the world chasing meat substitutes, hog producers and processors alike may wish they owned the meat and not the animal. At least that’s the consensus at “Pork School,” a weekly roundtable we host at Advance Trading.

Wall Street venture capital firms and large meat conglomerates seem to agree, as they are throwing money into any venture to synthetically create “meat” or derive it from sources like crickets or mealworms. And who would blame them? Growing an animal is hard these days.

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