
Lean hog futures are up 42 to 95 points so far on Monday. USDA’s national base hog price was not reported on Monday morning due to light volume. The CME Lean Hog Index was back down 3 cents at $109.80 on August 14.
The large managed money speculators in lean hog futures and options added back another 1,446 contracts to their net long position as of 8/12 to 110,732 contracts.