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Report Summary
Pork/Hogs: Pork production for 2025 is reduced 1 percent from last month’s forecast to 27.7 billion pounds reflecting official data reported through the first half of the year, as well as a slower slaughter rate and reduced dressed weights in the third and fourth quarters. Third-quarter national producer-sold hog prices are forecast at $77 per cwt, more than 17 percent higher than same-period prices in 2024. Pork exports rebounded in June to 552 million pounds, up 5 percent from a year earlier.