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By Debbie Carlson for CME Group Designed to reflect the dynamic between the meat packer and the hog producer, pork cutout futures find footing as high costs weigh on producers. Brian Oswalt is accustomed to price volatility when it comes to feed costs for his hog operation. As the hog production and risk manager for Maria Stein Grain Co., a farrow-to-finish business, he knows how to hedge his corn and soybean meal costs. But it’s the rising costs of everything else that’s affecting the firm, he says. Labor costs are up, trucking costs are up, and prices to buy piglets are higher, too, Oswalt s…