# Back to the future of pork grading

> 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.

- Date: 2017-12-04 · published 2017-12-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/67638-back-to-the-future-of-pork-grading
- Commodities: [Lean Hogs](https://feedsoft.ai/c/HOGS.md)

## Why it matters

Packer grading and premium programs shape how hog value is split between producers and packers, though this has no immediate price impact.

## Sources

- nationalhogfarmer.com: https://www.nationalhogfarmer.com/market-reports/back-to-the-future-of-pork-grading

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