Pork Glut Batters European Farmers, Leaving Surplus for Sausages and Dog Food
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Soren Sondergaard’s family has been raising pigs in Denmark for 138 years, and 2015 is turning into one of the worst.
Like a growing number of producers in Europe, Sondergaard is losing money because of an unexpected pork surplus. After the region’s biggest buyer, Russia, banned imports 18 months ago, prices are down 16 percent from a year earlier. In Denmark, where pigs outnumber people three to one, Sondergaard may lose 100,000 euros ($109,000) on the 30,000 animals he raises this year in Billund.