Lean hog futures slipped back into the close to end to the day with contracts down 35 cents to slightly higher in some deferred months. USDA’s national average base hog negotiated price was up $1.87 from the day prior at $91.87 on Wednesday afternoon. The CME Lean Hog Index was up another 37 cents from the previous day at $86.08 on April 21.

Wednesday afternoon’s pork cutout value from the USDA was $1.70 lower at $94.08. The butt primal was the only reported higher, with the rest heading lower. Wednesday’s federally inspected hog slaughter from USDA was estimated at 488,000 head, with the week to date total at 1.329 million head. That was down 133,000 head from last week and 121,024 head below the same week last year.

May 25 Hogs closed at $91.875, down $0.350,

Jun 25 Hogs closed at $100.150, down $0.125

Jul 25 Hogs closed at $100.300, up $0.025,

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Period	Period Low		Period High	Performance
1-Month	85.086 +1.17% on 04/15/25	Period Open: 88.794	89.131 -3.42% on 03/26/25	-2.709 (-3.05%) since 03/21/25
3-Month	81.916 +5.09% on 01/23/25	Period Open: 81.755	91.223 -5.63% on 02/19/25	+4.330 (+5.30%) since 01/21/25
52-Week	80.433 +7.03% on 01/09/25	Period Open: 91.305	93.636 -8.06% on 08/01/24	-5.220 (-5.72%) since 04/19/24

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