It’s no secret that the bottom has all but fallen out of the swine
market.
And even a spring upturn in pork prices rapidly turned sour with the
onset of the H1N1 virus. Once commonly known as swine flu, the virus
has closed virtually all channels of international trade to pork
producers.
“It’s a case of overproduction,” says retired Central City pork
producer Dan Erickson, and the glut is just too much for a purely
domestic market to absorb.
Enter Erickson’s son Justin and his business partner Wes Hansen……