Pork packing plants may be operating, but they’re not running at full capacity. Kerns and Associates economist Steve Meyer said that means the bottleneck in the supply chain will continue. To bring plants up to speed, Meyer said the packer capacity problems are intractable. “Unfortunately, we’re going to have to destroy animals before they get too big,” said Meyer. “We know some of that has been done already and I think there’s going to be substantially more; it could be several million pigs.”
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