Show L divesto ck R rr v A 4 s JA los angeles july 7 1317 1917 in the past few months the hog situation lias has been continually shifting the battest feature which has been injected into the situation has been the unexpected increase in fit grain price levels brought about by unfavorable planting conditions early lu in the season in the middle west in the spring ot of 1927 it was predicted that the attractive prices on hogs would no doubt result in a substantial increase in the number ot of BOWS to be far rowed during the tall fall early predictions were that increases would be shown from 12 per cent in the east to 25 and 30 per cent increase au r u the south and pacific coast see sec eions however at this writing it looks as though the corn belt and eastern increase will not materialize although a substantial increase is expected in the southern states dut to those aset lons ions not being affected to such on an extent by the grain situation it was indicated early that the pacific coast would register substantial increases but this no doubt will be retarded to some extent by recent substantial increases in barley prices although the need for increased production on the pacific coast and in hi the western states Is recognized ba by every one in the trade in 1922 california required nearly a million hogs to meet local demands of which california supplied one ona third in 1926 with practically the same slaughter Callton la supplied less than one sev enta of the local requirements the pork supply on oil the pacific coast Is not adjusted to give the best results to anyone along the line from the producer to the customer ilog hog supplies are secured from as far east as the missouri river and as long as this condition prevails the producer will always be in the position of long distance shipping with its attendant risks and the packer will be lit in the position of securing supplies front from these distant points with the chance of 0 bunching shipments from time to time causing the throwing ot of into the trade channels with accompanying losses everyone seems agreed that the only solution to this problem is pork production closer to the centers of 0 consumer demand and this would apply practically to the whole territory lying east of the rocky mountains from the differential in fit favor ot of western hog producers and which will remain in their favor until local production might bo be built up to reasonably meet western demand it Is evident that regardless of heavy marketing of hogs and possible pos biblo bible curtailment tail tall ment of production in the fast east and middle west brought about by grain production conditions t tern producer should profit i creasing hog brodu production action etui WIP les las than 10 per cent of 0 the file hogs required in california alone being brodu produced within the state and less than 25 per cent of 0 the lie being produced west of the rocky mountains it would seem that an unprecedented marketing opportunity is in western hog production |