2018 outlook for feed costs: corn
How serious is the possibility that US corn production could undergo a substantial reduction in the coming crop year?
The culmination of a great year. Future doubts.
As of today, with 2017 almost ended, the annual Spanish pig price (arithmetic, not weighted) mean is €1.26/kg LW.
We have hit bottom (maybe is it a thin ice bottom?)
Resist, resist and resist should be the motto for the first three months of 2018.
An incredible year by nearly every measure
We come to the close of a year filled with happy surprises in the hog industry. 2018 will be a year of continued growth in income for most nations throughout the world. Higher incomes bring more demand for pork.
We are reaching the bottom level. The end of the waterfall
Our prices will still fall, with slight drops, but it will fall, until reaching a point in which all the pigs that can be slaughtered will be slaughtered. The bottom price cannot be very far away…
“If you are offered a seat on a rocket, don’t ask which one, just get on!”
The sentence of the title is a quote from Sheryl Sandburg, COO Facebook. Contrary to all the headline grabbing scary stuff about dictators with missiles and itchy fingers, we appear to be entering a period of wide spread global economic recovery and potential prosperity that will drive big benefits to billions of people and some very special good news for pork producers worldwide.
Accelerated drop or how the waterfall becomes a cataract
Spanish pig prices will still fall, but the great question is: until where? The answer is not an easy one, but we tend to think that…
Back to earth: Hard landing?
While the remainder of the year will likely have challenges a little deeper than most are thinking now, it is not looking like a disaster…
