USA: Week 19 Pig Market Review 2021

As of May 14, 2021, the USDA reports that the average cost of pork products in the US market has fallen by $0.49. Over the past week, there was an increase in prices only for ribs (+8.01$), carbonade (+7.6$) and ham (+5.05$).

 Lean hog futures on the CME tumbled on technical selling and weak weekly pork EXPORT sales. The USDA reported US pork sales for the week ending May 6 at 14,745 tons, a three-week low. CHINA booked 3,048 tons and shipped 12,344 tons.

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

103.12-122.00

112.25

-1.20

6634

82.23-90.71

88.21

-2.55

870

WEEKLY WEIGHTED AVERAGE PRICE FOR PIGS

Weekly approximate volume of slaughter of pigs, thousand heads

PORK PRODUCTION