DES MOINES, lowa A Uni versity of Missouri ag economist announced this week that consum er demand for pork has increased two to three percent for the first four months of 1988. Glenn Grimes also said that average retail prices are about the same as a year ago. Hog prices for the past three weeks support the idea that con sumer demand is increasing. Despite a 12 percent increase in production for the first four months of 1988, cash receipts are up 2.5 percent. The strength in prices for the January to April period continues the trend seen in 1987. Grimes estimates that stronger consumer pork demand during 1987 put an extra $5OO million in producers’ pockets. He stated that the stronger demand meant an additional $6 or more per head marketed for pork producers. The investment by pro ducers of about 31 cents per head in promotion and development through the 100 percent checkoff programs has played a major role to achieve this increased demand. What makes the phenomenon of Unless you want to be a fiddler on the roof, next one \ral. Promotion-Enhanced Consumer Pork Demand stable or rising prices in the face of increased production intriguing is that it defies the normal economic laws of supply and demand. Usual ly, when hog production increases, price decreases. This wasn’t the case during January to April, 1988 or during all of 1987. Hog prices remained strong despite an increase in number of hogfc mark eted during both those periods. The Food and Drug Administra tion announced Aug. 1 in Food Chemical News that it is planning a joint program with USDA “to attack salmonella enteritidis in eggs.” A program of bacteriological and serological monitoring for sal monella enteritidis in flocks of hens used for egg production is in the planning stage, according to a draft of a joint Food and Drug Administration/Departrhent of Agriculture Task Force report on programs to cut down salmonella contamination, the announcement said. “Over the last three decades, producers have made great strides in improving the fat/lean ratio of their hogs. And, state and national promotional efforts have helped inform consumers of (he new, leaner product,” said Grimes. One of the promotional prog rams funded by the checkoff is the Pork The Other White Meat FDA To Attack Salmonella In Eggs Food and Drugs Commissioner Dr. Frank E. 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