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Ontario Hog Sales Running Above Last Year

Last week's Ontario Base Market Hog Price fell along with the CME Constructed Price weekly average.

The Ontario price went down just over 8 dollars per hundred kilograms - the CME price dropped by more than 5 dollars per hundredweight.

OMAFRA's John Bancroft reports the Ontario price got some support from a drop in the value of the Canadian dollar.

Bancroft says Ontario market hog sales year to date are up 2 and a half per cent over last year.

U-S hog slaughter over the past three weeks is running over 3 and a half per cent below last year for the same weeks.

Bancroft says dressed weights continue to run higher than last year on both sides of the border.

(See full report here.)

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