# Livestock market prices for beef and mutton edge down, making meat more affordable

> China’s third-week-of-August monitoring showed national beef prices down 0.1% week over week and mutton down 0.2%; live hogs and piglets each fell 0.4%, while pork was unchanged. National corn prices fell 0.5% and soybean meal prices 0.3%; compound feed prices were flat for fattening pigs and slightly lower for poultry.

- Date: 2026-11-08 · published 2026-11-08T07:37:03.642Z
- Category: market · region China · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/87256-livestock-market-prices-for-beef-and-mutton-edge-down-making-meat-more
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybean Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBM.md), [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md), [Lean Hogs](https://feedsoft.ai/c/HOGS.md), [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md), [Milk (Class III)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MILK.md)

## Why it matters

Lower corn and soybean meal prices ease some feed input costs, while flat or lower compound-feed prices offer limited additional relief to livestock producers. The modest moves suggest only a small bearish effect on feed markets.

## Read by commodity

- SBM: bearish ▼
- CORN: bearish ▼
- HOGS: bearish ▼
- MILK: bullish ▲
- CHICKEN: neutral
- LCATTLE: bearish ▼

## Sources

- nongxun.net: https://www.nongxun.net/wdd872133

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