 The call on cash hogs today is steady to a dollar lower. Buyers have not been all that aggressive this week, even after kind of a little bit of a better-than-expected negotiated run on Monday. So there is expected to be at least a little bit of pressure here in the latter half of the week. The cutout value on Wednesday afternoon was up 21 cents at 95.52. Yesterday's hog slaughter was estimated at 480,000 head. That's down 3,000 on the week, but up almost 28,000 on the year.