1.   As a result, retailers have been promoting beef rather than pork, leaving wholesale pork markets awash in meat.

2.   Domestic pork markets also have sagged.

3.   Kropf said he suspects the pork market could be low enough to attract demand, sending meat prices higher and supporting hog futures.

4.   Pork markets have struggled amid slack demand and high slaughter rates.

5.   Pork product markets, representing the various cuts from slaughtered animals, also rebounded.

6.   Pork markets sagged amid poor demand for hams, which represent more than one-fifth of carcass weight.

7.   Solving the environmental problems, they say, will only help the mega-farms intensify their efforts to take the pork market away from family farmers.

8.   The buying muscle of fast-food restaurants is turning the pork market on its head.

9.   They have enabled some hog farmers to stay afloat in a pork market that has been dropping sharply.

10.   Traders had expected that lower feed prices and strong pork markets, indicators of higher profits, would lead to larger gains.