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Negotiated carcass cash, your own costs and the next transport check.

Region: United States · negotiated carcass benchmarkThis is the public benchmark's stated geography, not your detected farm location. Any national context is labeled separately. Weather uses its separately labelled location below; it does not change the benchmark region.

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Negotiated carcass cashA dated public benchmark, not an executable farm offer. Compare the exact product, grade, unit, delivery and observation date with your own buyer terms. Report age follows publication cadence.

Afternoon report · national producer-negotiated weighted average · dollars per carcass hundredweight.

Saved snapshot · Older report · last good observation. Verify before use.Saved snapshot; refresh failed, was rejected, or is pending. Observation date 2026-10-30. Publication cadence: daily. Older-report thresholds: daily more than 4 days, weekly more than 10, monthly more than 45, measured against the original publication date (or observation week when no release date exists). Saved snapshot status is separate from report age.

National producer negotiated · carcass basisPublished national producer-negotiated carcass-basis weighted average from the afternoon hog report, with the matching negotiated row head count and published range. At a morning check this is the latest retained afternoon report, not an intraday offer. Formula and liveweight rows are excluded; no auction small-sample threshold is applied. United States. Dollars per hundredweight, each 100 lb.

$60.29 $/cwtPublished national producer-negotiated carcass-basis weighted average from the afternoon hog report, with the matching negotiated row head count and published range. At a morning check this is the latest retained afternoon report, not an intraday offer. Formula and liveweight rows are excluded; no auction small-sample threshold is applied. Selected product: National producer negotiated · carcass basis. Region: United States. Period: Daily direct afternoon hog report. Published 2026-10-30. Displayed to 2 decimals in $/cwt; no farm-local adjustment. Reported head count. Unit: $/cwt. Source: USDA AMS · Daily Direct Afternoon Hogs · 2675. As of 2026-10-30.

United States

3,701 headPublished head count for this exact National producer negotiated · carcass basis price row and observation date; not an estimated market size. This is the national negotiated carcass row; no auction small-sample threshold is applied. Unit: head. Source: USDA AMS · Daily Direct Afternoon Hogs · 2675. As of 2026-10-30.

$49.00–$67.00 $/cwt rangePublished price range for the same National producer negotiated · carcass basis row, not a forecast interval. The headline is the published weighted average, not the midpoint of this range. Unit: $/cwt. Source: USDA AMS · Daily Direct Afternoon Hogs · 2675. As of 2026-10-30.

USDA AMS · Daily Direct Afternoon Hogs · 2675 ↗Report: Check failed ; showing the Oct 30, 2026 CT report · Source fetch failed or report format rejected. Last successful read .Period: Daily direct afternoon hog report

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Your margin & marketing weightPrivate arithmetic on your own entered prices and costs. Every field starts blank. Nothing is submitted or saved and no published benchmark is adopted automatically.

Enter carcass pounds and all costs per marketed head; no assumed dressing yield or ration.

Blank by default. Your entries stay in this tab; nothing is saved or submitted. Use your own actual terms.

Actual or assumed carcass pounds per marketed head. No liveweight-to-carcass conversion or dressing yield is supplied.
Actual negotiated or contract carcass offer per 100 carcass pounds, after price adjustments. Keep liveweight prices out of this field.
Your feed cost per marketed head on the same accounting period and head basis. Include all applicable costs; this worksheet supplies no ration or feed-price assumption.
Your transport cost per marketed head on the same accounting period and head basis. Include all applicable costs; this worksheet supplies no ration or feed-price assumption.
Your other cost per marketed head on the same accounting period and head basis. Include all applicable costs; this worksheet supplies no ration or feed-price assumption.
Your arithmeticResults use only your own entries, on the displayed units and accounting period. They are scenarios, not bids or forecasts.

Enter every field to see the comparison. A blank is not zero.

Source: your private entries. Scenario date . Arithmetic only; no market prediction.

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Heat & transport planningCheck the official forecast for the explicitly named example place, or choose your own farm location where no example is supplied. No numeric forecast is displayed and weather is never multiplied into a financial position.

Check the forecast location below. Immediate animal-welfare conditions take priority.

Kansas City, MO example forecast. Location unavailable. Change to a US place for farm operations.Kansas City, MO example forecast. Location unavailable. Change to a US place for farm operations. Internet-connection location is approximate and may reflect a network exit point rather than your farm. Device coordinates come only after you click Use my exact location; their accuracy varies. ZIPs identify an area and selected places identify a reference point. Locations stay in this browser's existing location store. Click Change for a ZIP, city or coordinates. No city or county is guessed from device coordinates. US land coverage is checked offline; uncertain border/coastal points keep the labelled example. NWS opens only when you follow the forecast link. No numeric weather is fetched or used in financial arithmetic.

National Weather Service forecast ↗

Official links · reference list prepared This date belongs to the editorial reference list, not to any linked observation. No numeric feed or report observation is asserted here. Open the official service for its latest dated report and publication schedule.

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Pork demand & slaughterPork demand & slaughter is official-source navigation. No numeric observation is asserted here; open the linked report for its own issue date and scope.

Wholesale pork cutout is not the producer price or a guaranteed packer margin.

USDA livestock, pork & slaughter reports ↗

Official links · reference list prepared This date belongs to the editorial reference list, not to any linked observation. No numeric feed or report observation is asserted here. Open the official service for its latest dated report and publication schedule.

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Feed & inventory referenceFeed & inventory reference is official-source navigation. No numeric observation is asserted here; open the linked report for its own issue date and scope.

Use actual feed invoices. Official Hogs and Pigs inventory is periodic national context.

NASS Hogs and Pigs reports ↗

Official links · reference list prepared This date belongs to the editorial reference list, not to any linked observation. No numeric feed or report observation is asserted here. Open the official service for its latest dated report and publication schedule.

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Hedge & coverage referenceHedge & coverage reference is official-source navigation. No numeric observation is asserted here; open the linked report for its own issue date and scope.

Exchange delayed quotes and RMA program documents; no personalized trading call.

CME lean-hog delayed quotes ↗USDA RMA coverage ↗

Official links · reference list prepared This date belongs to the editorial reference list, not to any linked observation. No numeric feed or report observation is asserted here. Open the official service for its latest dated report and publication schedule.