moves, turn out to be some of the better ones, if the Prime Directive lets me hang on to them long enough. I have a couple producers that are telling me their poorest production is coming to market in the next 5 weeks. That may not be the case with most but I do know that when those Aug pigs were coming off the sows, large premiums were being paid for those pigs.

I had one producer that couldn't resist the prices he was offered and sold 4 weeks of pigs and then we bot futures in late April as an upside hedge that he took $3 profit on that round and then he bot them again when it broke 83.00 and proceeded to cash in another $5. He's a happy camper with 4 weeks of less labor and a lot more profits than if he had done the extra work. He's chomping at the bit to buy another round-----I told him, lets be patient for this to turn back to up momentum so he doesn't turn a good experience into a bad one, since it is still operating off of a sell signal.