date:Aug 05, 2014
at $116.91/cwt. This is down $5.73 from last week, but still up $23.54 vs. a year ago.
The western corn belt averaged $117.87 this morning, and Iowa-Minnesota averaged $116.98/cwt. There was no quote for the eastern corn belt. Peoria had a top live price today of $86/cwt. The top price for interior Missouri live hogs was $85.25/cwt. This morning's hog carcass price equaled 92.1 per cent of the pork cutout value.
Another week without any signs of widespread deterioration of the nation's corn c