06.27.2025
Sausage casings bulletin, June 27, 2025

Runner market commentary
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These early days of hemp production, processing, and marketing are very much a time of experimentation. Cannabinoid production started with labor intensive methods in a spectrum ranging from row crop or tobacco style production to orcharding or Christmas tree production models. Essentially various flavors of high-labor production, paired with falling hemp prices.
Flower production is high labor, but for producers locked into current trade flows, it pencils out nicely with returns exceeding $150,000/acre or more. Much more, in some cases. These figures are based on 1000 lbs. marketable flower/acre, at $150/lb. wholesale pricing. Greenhouse yields can easily exceed 30 grams/ft2, the equivalent of nearly 3000 lbs./acre, or $525,000/acre, using $175/lb. wholesale pricing.
The question really is what the demand will actually be, something nobody knows the answer to. Hemp flower is a…
06.24.2025
Correction to sausage casings, resale, North American hog runners, whiskered, ex-works North America on June 20: pricing notice
North American hog runners price published on Friday was incorrect due to a formula miscalculation. The original reported price of $1.63 has been corrected to the accurate rolling average...