Sentence examples for live hogs from inspiring English sources

The price they get for live hogs has remained flat -- from 40 cents to 60 cents per pound -- since 1975.

Last fall hog farmers voted against the tax on sales of live hogs that is used to pay for pork advertising, but the Bush administration overturned the vote.

The first of the regulations implementing the CAP were enacted in 1962 and applied to grain (except rice), poultry, eggs, live hogs and whole hog carcasses, fruit and vegetables, and wine.

The wheat market in Minneapolis, the cotton and wool markets in New York City, and the markets in frozen pork bellies and live hogs in the midwestern United States are among them.

Ms. Campbell's favorite episode, she said, featured her cavorting in the mud with live hogs on a farm in upstate New York while discussing Premium Standard Farms (whose ticker symbol is PORK).

The prices farmers get for hogs are the same as in 1975 -- 40 to 60 cents a pound per live hog.

Decreased live hog prices hurt Smithfield's hog production operating profit.

He added that low live hog prices and high grain prices led to "enormously difficult conditions" in the quarter.

The company said that live hog market prices averaged $42 per hundredweight in the quarter, compared to $47 per hundredweight last year.

But live-hog prices at the abattoir are public, and they are up around 50% over the past three years, to $135 a head.

The Pork segment operates with live markets hogs and fabricating pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal cuts and case-ready products.