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Pork prices?

Posted By: trapperkeck

Pork prices? - 06/13/21 08:04 PM

Didn't want to derail the Beef prices thread. Anyway, just for kicks, I made a run through a Sams Club here in New York today. Center cut pork chops were $3.84/# and a butt roast was $2.98/#. Two weeks ago, I bought 5 pork butts at $1.38/# and 24# of center cut bone-in chops for $2.06/#. Our local grocery also had country style bone-in ribs for $1.18/#, picked up about 30# of those too. Glad the freezer is full!
Posted By: KeithC

Re: Pork prices? - 06/13/21 08:14 PM

Pork prices are up here too.

Monday, June 7th Sale Results:
133 Hogs:
Sows 290-605 lbs: .34-.5250
Butchers: 127-164 lbs: .55-.66
182-205 lbs: .60-.70
290-300 lbs: .70-.74
317-335 lbs: .63-.6450
Boars: 165-220 lbs: .45-.46
310-315: .2250-.40
Pigs: 60-76 lbs: 36.00-66.00
82-93 lbs: 38.00-68.00
110-140 lbs: .65-.66

Last year, at the same auction, boars went down to 1 penny a pound and sows to .12 a pound.

I had a hog butchered back in May.

Keith
Posted By: Law Dog

Re: Pork prices? - 06/13/21 08:25 PM

We buy from a local hog farmer here best pork we can get lean and tender very healthy pork it’s cut the way we want it at the local locker best sausage around the price goes up and down we just ride the wave it’s worth it. They even drop off at the locker for us sweet deal.
Posted By: trapperkeck

Re: Pork prices? - 06/13/21 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Law Dog
We buy from a local hog farmer here best pork we can get lean and tender very healthy pork it’s cut the way we want it at the local locker best sausage around the price goes up and down we just ride the wave it’s worth it. They even drop off at the locker for us sweet deal.

We used to do the same thing, then we moved to the city.
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Posted By: Sprung & Rusty

Re: Pork prices? - 06/13/21 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by Law Dog
We buy from a local hog farmer here best pork we can get lean and tender very healthy pork it’s cut the way we want it at the local locker best sausage around the price goes up and down we just ride the wave it’s worth it. They even drop off at the locker for us sweet deal.

Same here. The meat is better tasting than store bought too.
Posted By: bblwi

Re: Pork prices? - 06/14/21 12:04 AM

Labor is hard to find to keep the lines full and running for hogs and beef. Domestic demand is up as is the export demand and numbers are down due to the 15 month ago COVID crunch where not only were fed hogs euthanized but sows were shipped as some did not know when the market would return. Now with corn and soybeans very high and feeding a fed hog feed is 70% of the cost many farmers with acres are cutting back as they can make more profit at $6.50 corn and $14. beans then selling hogs for $100 per CWT. Also as the corn and beans went up and the prices have risen rapidly a lot of old sows hit the market as they were more profitable to slaughter then to breed and feed. Also countries like China which buys about 25-30% of US hogs will try to buy more pork as it is less costly to pay more for processed pork then to buy and ship metric tons of corn and beans.
If China removed their penalty tariffs they still enforce our hog prices here would go up even more near term.
Bryce
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