USA: Week 14 Pig Market Review 2023

The export sales report for the week ending March 30 reported exports of 53,242 tons of pork. It was a new high for the year thanks to sales in China. USDA also shipped 31,519 tons of pork in the week, bringing the weekly data to an annual volume of 388,000 tons .

Pork futures edged up $0.10-$1.10 ahead of the long weekend. The USDA pork tenderloin price rose $2.12 to $78.68. Slaughter of pigs for the week is estimated at 1.924 million heads through Thursday. This is 3,000 more than last week and 44,000 more than the same week last year.

You can learn more about the state of the US pig market, as well as the prices for pigs and pork on the American (and not only) market, in the weekly reviews of the meat market in Russia and in the world from Meatinfo.ru.

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Average price for pigs

Negotiated price

Price in carcass weight

Price in live weight

National based LM_HG203:

-price range ($)

- weighted average. price

-Change from the day before

-volume of sales

64.00-73.00

70.61

-0.25

1111

43.00-56.90

51.41

778

Iowa/Minnesota LM_HG206:

- weighted average. price

71.39 (-0.3)

No data

Western Corn Belt LM_HG212:

- weighted average. price

71.39 (-0.03)

No data

Eastern Corn Belt LM_HG210:

- weighted average. price

69.85

No data

WEEKLY AVERAGE WEIGHTED PRICE FOR PIGSWeekly approximate volume of slaughter of pigs, thousand heads

PORK PRODUCTION