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Neil Dierks
- National Pork Producers Council |
| World Pork Expo-Report 04 for June 6, 2002 (Episode 985)
The National Pork Producers Council plans to initiate action on a variety of fronts aimed at heading off the economic impact of an expected shortage of hog slaughtering capacity this fall.
The hope is to avoid, if possible, a repeat of the fall of 1998 when a lack of slaughter capacity dropped the bottom out of North American hog markets.
NPPC Chief Executive Officer Neil Dierks says we're again at razor thin levels with what the projections are and what our capacity needs are from a market hog perspective.
He says the NPPC is interfacing with other groups in the US and talking with its counterparts in Canada to explore the kinds of opportunities can be done jointly to make sure order is maintained.
Clip-Neil Dierks-National Pork Producers Council
Obviously in this country part of our role in this industry is to deal with our government.
Likewise in Canada the Canadian council can play a role interfacing with the Canadian government.
There are things governments can do as it relates to helping exacerbate some degree of the supply situation, possible places product can go.
Now, obviously to move more meat product from Canada into the United States the fourth quarter of this year probably wouldn't be our choice specifically for where to send it but those are the kinds of things we'll continue to explore with the Canadian council.
Dierks says, from a producer perspective, it's critical to make as much information available as possible.
He encourages producers to look at as many credible marketing projections as possible, at what those projections are saying as it relates to marketing numbers and where capacity is.
He says we're going to have a lot of hogs this fall so, if producers can get their marketings current and keep their marking weights under control, it will help alleviate some of problems.
At World Pork Expo in Des Moines, I'm Bruce Cochrane.
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