I did the math of $10 corn and $600 soybean meal over today`s prices on a #300 hog with a #222 carcass. It would be $58 more corn and $24 more bean meal cost, that would equate to 25¢ per lb corn and 11¢/lb or 36¢ more expensive pork at the meat counter. As a Jewish Lutheran I don`t eat pork, but a pork chop or slab of bacon being 36¢ per pound more would be a big deal??? I will bet that if we do have $10 corn the supermarkets would use that as an excuse to raise the pork price considerably more than 36¢/lb...and have little signs at the meat counter putting the blame on the farmer. It`s time that consumers start absorbing more of these costs at the supermarket. There is inflation that they don`t see they took a 1 lb box of Honey Bunches of Oats down to 13oz to keep the price from going up. But with meat priced per pound that`s harder to do, unless your butcher has a heavy thumb
A pound is a pound the world around, but packages can get smaller.
