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Pork and Soybeans

Their prices have moved together.

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

How they are linked

1. Price link: feed cost

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Soybean meal is the main protein in pig diets, and Chinese pig numbers drive world soybean imports. The swine price barely tracks soybeans: monthly moves correlate at 0.04 and yearly moves at 0.27, as disease swamps feed costs.

  • 0.04 monthly change correlation
  • 0.27 12-month change correlation
  • 0.49 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.