Yep, same here in NC; traded on both local and national exchanges.
Iowa is first in swine production among the states & North Carolina is
second.
Pork bellies aren't really trading parts of the pig; they're derivatives
based on contracts to buy/sell hogs at a fixed price come some future date.
On 8/3/2015 12:01 PM, Donald Guthrie wrote:
Very interesting John, the things I learn here. In Iowa pork bellies are
traded on the commodities market or used to be so that was my 1st thought.
On 8/2/15 7:34 PM, pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote:
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I vaguely remember from my school days that "Pork Bellies" was a
derisive slang term for the sutlers & other camp-following "merchants"
who trailed along behind the the Union Armies during the American Civil
War ... derived from the belly being the lowest part of the pig.
Today they'd be described as whale-shit, there being nothing lower
because it's on the bottom of the ocean.
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