Hog Margins Hold Strong: Seventeen-Month Profit Streak Signals Sector Resilience
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10/14/2025
Iowa State University publishes monthly estimates of cost returns on hogs that provides a general outlook on the margins that many producers are experiencing.
Total returns for farrow-to-finish producers stay positive, with estimates calculating that on average producers saw a profit of $52.58 per head in August 2025 (Figure 1). Returns increased by $0.68 from July after increasing by $7.48 the previous month. Accounting...
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