Guillem Burset

What implications do current hog prices in Spain have for exports and slaughterhouses? How will we manage the typical reduced supply in the summer, exacerbated this year by PRRS?

Slaughterhouses will suffer a very complicated summer; in addition to the normal lack of pigs, there will be the absence of hundreds of thousands of piglets, victims of PRRS. Sooner rather than later, we will only be able to slaughter just four days a week.

The self-sufficiency rate of pig production in the EU will tend to decrease, approaching 110% instead of 125% as it has been until recently. Burset reviews the situation in the leading countries.

We are witnessing a reconversion of the industry. We have seen a string of all-time record hog prices and now pork prices for processors are also rising, but large-scale distributors are only willing to raise prices in dribs and drabs.

What is happening with Spanish pig prices? Guillem Burset explains this anomaly in the international market.

Guillem Burset analyzes the swine market in 2022 and shares his forecasts for the coming year.

While pig prices and inventories are falling in most of Europe, we see the center of gravity of European pig production shifting relentlessly to the southwest of the continent.

Again with China? Didn't they already recover their inventory after ASF? Burset clarifies the situation and analyzes how it will affect us.

After assessing the international situation, Burset forecasts the beginning of the price drop for Spanish pigs, which will continue until the beginning of 2023.

Summer has been hellish with skyrocketing costs, slow rising pig prices and "anchored" pork prices. Guillem Burset analyzes the current situation in the swine market and predicts what the coming months will bring.

Never before had the Spanish pig price reached 1.689 €/kg live... What will happen in autumn?

Guillem Burset analyzes the current situation of the Spanish swine industry in the European and world market and gives us clues about what may happen in 2023.

After several weeks of stable prices in Spain due to the fight between slaughterers and producers, the Spanish pig price finally went up. Guillem Burset forecasts what will happen now.

Guillem Burset analyzes the current situation in the European swine market, which is entering uncharted territory: skyrocketing prices, exports threatened, prices of raw materials and energy going through the roof, a lack of pigs...

An early release of the economic commentary by Guillem Burset gives us the keys to understanding where the European meat industry is at this moment in time.

February comes to an end with the pig price rising. At the moment there are not enough pigs in Spain to keep up with the record pace of slaughter seen in January.