Table 6.

Economic impact of transport losses in market weight pigs on the U.S. pork industry for the years of 2012 to 2015

	Transport losses		Lost opportunity
	Pigs, %*	Pigs, No.†	Cost, $/loss‡	Total costs, $ ||	Cost per pig marketed, $ †,$
Dead pigs	0.26%	278,769	$183.03	$51,023,263	$0.47
Non-ambulatory pigs	0.63%	679,026	$54.91	$37,284,703	$0.34
Totals/averages	0.88%	957,795	$92.20	$88,307,966	$0.81

^*Values for dead and non-ambulatory pigs were obtained from Table 2.

^†Values are based on 108,470,550 pigs slaughtered annually and were obtained from Table 4.

^‡Values for opportunity costs were obtained from Table 4.

^||Total opportunity costs = opportunity cost per loss × number of losses.

^$Cost per pig marketed = total opportunity costs/total pigs marketed.