Market Activity

The market was typically Monday quiet with no action reported. 

Hog Slaughter

Last week’s hog slaughter estimate was right on par with 2016 at 2.535 million head. The actual difference between the 2017 estimate and 2016 actual was an 8,000 head decrease for 2017. Slaughter over the next four weeks looks very similar to 2016. Our estimate of 9.216 million head over the next four weeks is up 0.38% from the same time period in 2016. Jan looks to…