Canadian hog slaughter numbers are running 2 and a half per cent ahead of last year.
Agriculture and AgriFood Canada reports there have been 14 point 1 million head slaughtered in federal plants to the week ending September 12th.
Ontario's average price of 205.07 per hundred kilograms, dressed weight, was 6 point 1 per cent lower than the same week last year.
In the U-S, the University of Missouri's Ron Plain says total hog slaughter last week was 1 point 278 million head - up 11 point 7 per cent from the previous week and up 11 point 7 per cent from the same week last year.
Plain also reports August retail pork prices in the U-S were up 6 point 5 per cent from July, but down 36 point 6 per cent from August of 2014.
Iowa State University calculations have the average profit for market hogs sold by Iowa farrow-to-finish operations in August at just over 20 dollars per head.
That was the fifth consecutive profitable month for Iowa producers.
