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While European prices are forecast to be lower than in the previous two years, 333 users in the Americas are forecasting higher prices. China's forecasts remain between 2019 and 2020 levels.

When thinking on your productions system, maybe your supply chain shock planning is now as critical as bio-security.

The price of pork continues to rise and Burset makes a prediction for June. It all seems to be good news for producers and slaughterhouses but the processing industry is in for a storm.

It seems that the deficit in China will last all year and the flow of exports from Spain to this large Asian country will not let up...

IFIP predicts a marked decline in pig production in northern Europe, while Spain will continue to grow. In the eastern countries, Romania stands out, where there are companies investing.

A consequence of both developing natural disasters (spreading drought) and new government policies…

In an unprecedented year, how did 333 users’ predictions match up with the actual average pig price in their country? Let’s compare the results from 13 countries.

IFIP with InterPIG data summarizes how production costs evolved in 19 different countries and regions.

It must be acknowledged that for Spanish swine industry not only has not been a bad year but it rather has been an excellent year.

Prices are drifting down to close out the year and if you look to the futures as a guide for next year, it is boringly normal. This happens when people have no real idea what to expect…

In view of the unprecedented time we are living in, we are publishing this monthly commentary a few days early.

How the pig prices are negotiated in Spain's reference market? Mercolleida represents the market with the highest pig slaughtering activity within the European Union.

Spanish producers should make it a priority to be more efficient and should realize that growth cannot continue indefinitely.

Lots of things brewing out there with both supply and demand. Rarely do we get such action at the same time on both sides of the price determination.

In less than 48 hours German exports halted, so every week about 9,000 extra tonnes of pork need to be sold within the EU.

How long this will last is anyone’s guess but here are a few things which combine to provide the briefest pause, for a moment of hope.

Spanish slaughterhouses are demonstrating extraordinary resilience. Pig prices in Spain are grossly higher than in any of the competing European countries.

For most of the month, our price in Spain has been 25 cents higher than in Holland and about 20 cents higher than Germany. What is the key?

Making predictions is never easy, but making future projections in these times of COVID-19 proves difficult for even the best analysts.

It seems that we have already hit the price bottom, although no one is ruling out the possibility of COVID-19 infections reappearing. We will worry in due time, not now, about what may happen when China regains its self-sufficiency.

The severity of the pig euthanasia curve will be determined by how successful producers are at slowing pig growth as well as how successful packers are at returning to full harvest efficiency.

It is not the strongest, the fastest, or the smartest who survive, but those who are best able to adapt to change.

A 10% cumulative drop in the price of pork in Spain seems mild, very mild indeed for what is to come. Hold on tight, there are curves coming...

The challenges facing the global pork chain from the multi-headed monster pandemics of African Swine Fever in swine and COVID-19 disease in humans are breathtaking.