Minnesota Pork Producers Association CEO David Priesler says the main border crossing for feeder pigs coming into the Upper Midwest is at the Pembina/Emerson border crossing. “There are other routes folks can go, but that is where most all of the trucks come through. We have several thousand feeder pigs that come down on a yearly basis. We also have U.S. product that moves north like soybean meal and corn to feed the sow farms in Canada; it goes both ways.” Priesler says hog producers are trying to plan accordingly. “A lot of it ends up being timing. The farm up in Canada only has so much time to hang onto the pigs they have and then, obviously, we don’t want barns to be empty long here.”
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