By Jim Roope, CNN
(CNN) – The price of bacon is about to go up. Say it isn’t so!
Though the industry warning first came out of Europe, hog farmer Diana Prichard of Michigan’s Olive Hill Farm says that it’s true here in the U.S. too.
There are three factors contributing to the impending shortage. According to Prichard, the first is the drought:
[1:24] “Most of the corn and soy beans, which are the two major crops that we use to feed hogs have been damaged or some of them lost entirely this year.”