# Cash Hog Prices Fall for Third Week in a Row

> Cash hog prices fell for a third straight week, with the Iowa/Minnesota market down $1.10 through Thursday. Allendale expects weekly slaughter around 2.569 million head and does not expect the U.S. to ship pork to China despite the swine fever outbreak because of heavy tariffs.

- Date: 2018-10-26 · published 2018-10-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/62685-cash-hog-prices-fall-for-third-week-in-a-row
- Commodities: [Lean Hogs](https://feedsoft.ai/c/HOGS.md)

## Why it matters

Heavy hog supply and the expectation that the U.S. cannot tap Chinese demand because of tariffs point to lower lean hog index values into December futures expiry.

## Read by commodity

- HOGS: bearish ▼

## Sources

- agriculture.com: https://www.agriculture.com/markets/analysis/cash-hog-prices-fall-for-third-week-in-a-row

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