Falling hogs 🐷

📉 Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures fell this week as cash hog prices remained soft and wholesale pork prices lingered near two-year lows.

     • Demand on the export front is slow and on the domestic front it can't seem to grab hold – the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) points to the lowest pork carcass cutout since mid-January 2021.

     • The stalled demand from China due to the country’s excess of supplies (as we talked about in our last edition), a significant buyer of US pork, is also a factor.

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