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 $96.86 per hundredweight. The only grades that declined were brisket and picnic. USDA estimated federally inspected hog slaughter this week was 2.428 million HEAD. That's down 81,000 from last week and 92,684 head from the same week last year due to a midweek snowstorm and transportation slowdowns.
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Average price of pigs
Negotiable price
Price in slaughter weight
Price in live weight
On a national basis LM_HG203:
-price range ($)
- 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