date:Aug 20, 2014
ue took a big drop this week, with today's cutout at $113.29/cwt FOB the plants, down $12.62 from last Friday. Loins, butts, hams and bellies were all lower. The cutout is $10.38 above a year ago. This morning's hog carcass price equaled 90.7 per cent of the pork cutout value.
This week's hog slaughter totaled 2.017 million head, up 5.1 per cent from the week before, but down 7.7 per cent from the same week last year.
The average live slaughter weight of barrows and gilts in Iowa-Minnesota las