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Steve Meyer of Ever.ag Livestock Division reviews the history of pork carcass grading, from the early 1990s push for lean hogs and the National Pork Producers Council's Lean Value Guide to today's packer use of loin quality data to sort product into high-value markets.
Packer grading and premium programs shape how hog value is split between producers and packers, though this has no immediate price impact.
nationalhogfarmer.comSteve MeyerDec 4, 2017Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
