date:Apr 08, 2014
erior Missouri live hogs was $90.50/cwt, up $1.50 from the previous Friday.
Wholesale pork belly prices went above $200 for the first time ever on Wednesday. This morning bellies were $202.72/cwt.
Friday morning's pork cutout value was $132.46/cwt FOB the plants, up $1.53 from the week before and up $55.18 from a year ago. This morning's hog carcass price averaged 94.6 per cent of the cutout value.
There were 247 new farms with positive tests for the PED virus during the week ending on March