US Hog Market Review Week 12, March 24, 2025

The USDA National Average Basic Contract Price for pork was posted at $88.40 Friday afternoon, down 99 cents from the day before. The CME Lean Hog ​​Index was down 21 cents from the previous day to $89.20 on March 19.

USDA Friday morning FOB pork tenderloin rose $1 to $96.86 per hundredweight. The only grades that declined were brisket and picnic. USDA estimated federally inspected hog slaughter this week was 2.428 million head. That's down 81,000 from last week and 92,684 head from the same week last year due to a midweek snowstorm and transportation slowdowns.

You can learn more about the state of the pig market in the USA , as well as about the prices of pigs and pork on the American (and other) market in the weekly reviews of the meat market in Russia and in the world from Meatinfo.ru.

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Average price of pigs

Negotiable price

Price in slaughter weight

Price in live weight

On a national basis LM_HG203:

-price range ($)

- weighted average price

-Change from the day before

-sales volume

85.00-92.00

91.02

2.74

10119

No data

Iowa/Minnesota LM_HG206:

- weighted average price

91.18 (+2.97)

No data

Western Corn Belt LM_HG212:

- weighted average price

91.29 (+3.08)

No data

Eastern Corn Belt LM_HG210:

- weighted average price

No data

No data

WEEKLY AVERAGE WEIGHTED PRICE OF PIGSWeekly approximate volume of pig slaughter, thousand heads