The persistent reduction in carcass weight during summer months poses a substantial challenge for the swine industry, limiting its profitability potential. This phenomenon often aligns with peak market hog prices, with July and August being the most financially consequential. We attribute this decrease in carcass weight of 6 to 12 lbs. to the compounding effect of exposing pigs to heat stress conditions and the displacement of soybean meal with feed intake-reducing ingredients such as corn DDGS, corn germ, and wheat midds. Our research has highlighted the pivotal role of soybean meal in enhancing pig performance and defined an optimal dose of soybean meal by dietary phase (Boyd and Rosero, 2022). To mitigate the carcass weight dip phenomenon, we developed a nutritional program that excluded feed intake-reducing ingredients and contained high levels of soybean meal to maximize feed intake and growth performance of growing pigs to be sold during summer months. Compared to the typical high-energy diet program (added fat and including corn DDGS) used until the summer of 2019, this soybean meal-based diet program implemented across the Hanor system reduced feed cost by approximately $4 per pig (reference ingredient prices from 2020- 2023; Pope et al., 2024) and improved carcass weight by an average of 5.5 lbs. during May to August 2022. Considering the 2022 hog market prices, the soybean meal-based diet program generated an additional $14 per pig revenue compared to the previous high-energy diet program.