# Pork and Soybeans

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/pork-and-soybeans/

[Pork](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/pork/) (commodity) and [Soybeans](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/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

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