date:May 13, 2014
N topped at $76. The top price Friday for interior Missouri live hogs was $74.25/cwt which was down $2.25 from the previous Friday.
Friday morning's pork cutout value was $112.35/cwt FOB the plants, down $1.77 from the week before, but up $22.00 from a year ago. This morning's hog carcass price averaged 95.3 per cent of the cutout value.
Hog slaughter this week totaled 2.016 million head, down 0.1 per cent from the week before and down 3.3 per cent compared to the same week last year. After se