This week’s Sterling Marketing Pork Profit Tracker shows farrow-to-finish margins remain strong, averaging $44/head for the week ending March 1 with a lean carcass value averaging $89.17. A year ago, producers lost $1/head with a lean carcass value of $73.59/cwt.
Pork packer margins were barely into black ink averaging $3/head for the week and down sharply from the an estimate $22.33 per head a year ago.
View the full Sterling Pork Profit Tracker for the week ending March 1.
The Beef and Pork Profit Trackers are calculated by Sterling Marketing, Vale, Ore.
(Note: The Sterling Beef Profit Tracker calculates an average beef cutout value for the week in its estimates for feedyard and packer margins. Other prices in the weekly Profit Tracker also are calculated weekly averages. Feedyard margins are calculated on a cash basis only with no adjustment for risk management practices. The Beef and Pork Profit Trackers are intended only as a benchmark for the average cash costs of feeding cattle and hogs. Sterling Marketing is a private, independent beef and pork consulting firm not associated with any packing company or livestock feeding enterprise.)
