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Livestock Industry Margins

The pork industry saw production margins improve last week as strong pork demand lifted prices for both the pork cutout and physical hogs. Pork packer margins ticked slightly higher as gains in the pork market outpaced those in the hog market while higher lean hog futures and a slight dip in feed costs boosted producer margins. Forward-looking margins for both farrow-to-finish and wean-to-finish operations are still negative for this week’s farrowings/placements, but closeout profits remain positive thanks to hog price gains that offset weaker basis levels and greater realized feed costs.  The beef sector continues to see diverging trends ...

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