{"id":20072,"date":"2012-08-06T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=20072"},"modified":"2016-09-20T12:16:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T16:16:46","slug":"passing-this-along-interesting-note-on-fainting-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/passing-this-along-interesting-note-on-fainting-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing This Along &#8211; Interesting Note on Fainting Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a quick meeting with a colleague of mine who is a meat broker. \u00a0 In particular he focuses on pork products and he&#8217;s been having a very slow summer. The prices for pork products are such that there is limited opportunity and the supply is also constrained.<\/p>\n<p>More interesting is the fact that the pigs are fainting when they get to the processing facilities. It seems that the combination of being underfed and overheated is creating a problem. The pigs that faint are branded and <!--more-->sent back to the farmer and no longer able to be sold. So, not only are the problems with feed costs creating a distorted market condition, but the heat and health are also now taking their toll on the animals.<\/p>\n<p>We are still very interested in a few of the poultry providers that we mentioned in this week&#8217;s<a title=\"TDI Podcast: Dark Pools, HFT and Algos Gone Wild  (#274)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/tdi-podcast-dark-pools-hft-and-algos-gone-wild-274\/\"><strong> TDI Podcast<\/strong><\/a>. Listen in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-disciplined-investor\/id217999782\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-257\" title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/itunes_subscribe3-3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a quick meeting with a colleague of mine who is a meat broker. \u00a0 In particular he focuses on pork products and he&#8217;s been having a very slow summer. The prices for pork products are such that there is limited opportunity and the supply is also constrained. More interesting is the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[490],"class_list":["post-20072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}