Grimes and Plain Weekly Hog Outlook

CHICAGO - Apr 4/08 - SNS -- Following is a week ending hog market comment from the University of Missouri - Columbia's Glenn Grimes and Ron Plain.

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Hog producers who used the other market formula contract to price

and sell their hogs since August have fared much better than producers

who sold on the spot market or meat and or long market formulas (other

market contract is priced on futures market).

The number of producers who used the other market formula

amounted to about 10 percent of barrows and gilts slaughtered under

Federal Inspection. See table.

Issued by Glenn Grimes and Ron Plain

University of Missouri - Columbia

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