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Keeping First Quarter Carcass Cutout Prices in Perspective
2013-03-19 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - How deep is the trouble for the US pork market? There has been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the past few weeks as cutout values dropped below $80. For us old-timers, that is a pretty remarkable statement, since prior to 2008 we had seen cutout values above $80 only a handful of times during the summer of 2004, writes Steve Meyer in his weekly Market Preview as published in National Hog Farmer magazine.
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