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Maize and Pork

Their prices have moved together.

Maize (commodity) and Pork (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: feed cost

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Maize is the main energy feed for pigs, so feed prices set much of the cost of raising them. The link shows over a year rather than a month: monthly moves correlate at 0.07 and yearly moves at 0.40.

  • 0.07 monthly change correlation
  • 0.40 12-month change correlation
  • 0.47 fitted elasticity

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