Part 2 of 2 It wasn’t just grain farmers that USDA shafted with misinformation last year. National Hog Farmer published a contention that USDA “did hog farmers no favor” by overstating hog numbers in their September quarterly report. USDA set the market up to expect larger supplies than materialized. The result was “hog prices that were lower than they should have been longer than they should have been.” No one will compensate hog producers for the USDA error. Going further the NHF article stated, “In fact, the November report that pushed out a 180++ yield number was against a backdrop of 91% of the crop harvested at the time of the report, a solid 15% more than normal. How did they miss so much? The Chief of the USDA offered no explanation aside from, “That is what the data said.” That dude has a career in politics. Wait, he already works for the government. This is inexcusable.” At least hog producers benefited from the USDA misinformation that depressed grain prices and thus reduced their feed costs “more than they would have been longer than they would have been otherwise.” The NHF lamented what grain farmers were going through saying “the USDA (surprise!) has indicated…