# Farmers Warn of a Chicken and Pork Price Spike, Thanks to Hurricane Florence | 2018-09-21  | SupplyChainBrain

> Hurricane Florence has killed at least 37 people in North Carolina and left 343,000 without power. The state's Department of Agriculture says 3.4 million chickens and turkeys and 5,500 hogs died, double the losses from Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Sanderson Farms reports 1.7 million broilers dead and over 6 million isolated by floodwaters, while farmers also worry about flooded hog lagoons.

- Date: 2018-09-21 · published 2018-09-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/63201-farmers-warn-of-a-chicken-and-pork-price-spike-thanks-to-hurricane-florence
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md), [Lean Hogs](https://feedsoft.ai/c/HOGS.md)

## Why it matters

North Carolina is the third-largest U.S. poultry producer and second-largest hog producer, so these losses could tighten chicken and pork supplies and lift wholesale prices in the short term.

## Read by commodity

- HOGS: bullish ▲
- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HOGS | 2019-02-13 | [Floods, drought, trade wars - trying to understand risk in a sea of uncertainty - Beef Central](https://feedsoft.ai/events/60546-floods-drought-trade-wars-trying-to-understand-risk-in-a-sea-of-uncertainty.md) | +0.9% | +6.6% |
| HOGS | 2018-09-18 | [Florence adds volatility to lean hog prices - FreightWaves](https://feedsoft.ai/events/63180-florence-adds-volatility-to-lean-hog-prices-freightwaves.md) | +9.1% | +10.0% |
| HOGS | 2021-08-20 | [After the Bell \| Aug. 20, 2021 - Pro Farmer](https://feedsoft.ai/events/12606-after-the-bell-aug-20-2021-pro-farmer.md) | -0.2% | -5.7% |
| HOGS | 2016-06-03 | [Futures File: Soaring prices prove pigs can fly; weather worries push grain prices higher – Greeley Tribune](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5266-futures-file-soaring-prices-prove-pigs-can-fly-weather-worries-push-grain.md) | +2.1% | +4.9% |
| HOGS | 2019-07-27 | [Lean meat: US pork prices rise as sweltering summer leads to skinny pigs \| US economy \| The Guardian](https://feedsoft.ai/events/58253-lean-meat-us-pork-prices-rise-as-sweltering-summer-leads-to-skinny-pigs-us.md) | -4.0% | -19.8% |

## Sources

- supplychainbrain.com: https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/28783-farmers-warn-of-a-chicken-and-pork-price-spike-thanks-to-hurricane-florence

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