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Hog Futures Crash on Huge Supply, Snowy Weather Boosts Cattle
USAgNet - 02/21/2019

There are so many hogs in the U.S. it's causing futures to crash in Chicago. Bloomberg reports that pork output last week was 5.7 percent above year-earlier levels, while the industry only expected an increase of 2 percent to 3 percent, Terry Roggensack, one of the founding principals at commodity researcher Hightower Report, said in a note Wednesday. Wholesale-pork prices have dropped to the lowest since 2009.

"Production continues to come in well above trade expectations, and this is helping to keep pork-product prices in a downtrend," he said.

On Wednesday, hog futures for April settlement fell as much as 7.6 percent, or 4.275 cents, to 52.25 cents a pound in Chicago. That's a record low for the contract, which debuted in October 2017.

Meanwhile, freezing weather in the U.S. Great Plains and the Midwest is sparking a rally in the cattle market. Cold weather often means animals reach market weights less quickly as they use more energy to keep warm. Cattle futures for April delivery added as much as 0.5 percent to touch $1.2915 a pound Wednesday. Prices touched $1.29475 late last month, the highest ever for the contract that started trading in November 2017.


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