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Show Hog Support Price Increased Increase in the hog support price and a larger 1945 fall pig production produc-tion goal, planned to insure the largest practicable production and marketing of pork products, have been announced by the War Food Administration. National fall pig goal has been set at 37,000,000 head, 18 percent more than the number raised last fall. The hogs support price has been increased from the present $12.50 to $13 a hundredweight, Chicago basis, for good choice butcher hogs, all weights up to 270 pounds. The new support price will become effective ef-fective immediately and continue to September 1, 1946, through the period when 1945 pigs will be marketed. mar-keted. At the same time, the Price Administrator announced that there would be no reduction before September 1, 1946, in the ceiling prices for live hogs from the present pres-ent levels of $14.75 a hundredweight, hundred-weight, Chicago basis, for butcher hogs and $14 for sows. |