Citing “all time high” sow prices, Bob Evans, a food processor and restaurant chain operator based in Columbus, Ohio, announced in June that it was raising sausage prices to its retail buyers “for the first time in many years.”
Sows cost over $60 a hundredweight in April. That compares to an average of $42 per hundredweight in the fiscal year ending April 30 and $45 in fiscal 2009.