The two main drivers of this strong hog market are a perception that rebounds in Chinese hog prices will bring more buying of US pork and concern over US hog supplies. The first issue can be dis-proven. The second issue, last week and today's hog slaughter, continues to plague us. Hog futures attempted lower trade today but rebounded to the third best close of the October contract.
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