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Half Pigs: The price for a half pig is $5.00/lb based on final hanging weight at the butcher after slaughter. A typical half pig hangs at 90 lbs so the pig cost is typically $580 or so. The slaughter is $40 and the butchering (cutting & vacuum packaging) is $90.
There were no regional price quotes this morning for the eastern corn belt or for Iowa-Minnesota. This morning's national negotiated hog price is 79.8% of the cutout value. The top hog price today at Peoria was $39/cwt, down $1.50 from a week ago. Today's top price for interior Missouri live hogs was $43.50/cwt, down $2.25 from last Friday. This week's hog slaughter totaled 2.236 million head, up 2.0% from last week and up 0.9% from the same week last year.