Meat purchasing becomes more accurate when cuts replace species averages

Price movements in the U.S. market on October 20 confirm that signals must be read by cut and end use. Meat Read recorded especially sharp declines for 23–27-pound pork hams, down 24.42 cents per pound from Friday and 19.4 percent below their level three weeks earlier. Frozen backribs above two pounds and fresh 85CL beef trimmings were also trading below their three-week ranges.