Lean meat: US pork prices rise as sweltering summer leads to skinny pigs

• Farmers say they have more slender summer herd to sell
• Overweight pigs in spring led to lowest prices in a decade

Lean times for US pig farmers have led to an unforeseen spike in pork prices.

Sweltering under record-setting summer temperatures, pigs that have sweated off the pounds and are now considered underweight.

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