Market Activity

Trading was very quiet today to start the week. BFT offers were indicated much higher for December, but action today for that window was limited to formula business.

Hog slaughter is expected to finish this week up 0.98% relative to last week and up 5.85% compared to the same week in 2017.  Our forecast for the next three weeks, leading up the Thanksgiving holiday, calls for an average of 2.57 million head to be processed per week, which is a 4.1%…