Danish Crown to stop paying two different pig prices by mid-March

Effective March 15, Danish Crown will eliminate the quotas for hog deliveries which were introduced in November 2020.

In November 2020, Danish Crown's Board of Directors made the decision to set two different prices for deliveries from its member producers in order to be able to take on the additional slaughter of many more animals following the outbreak of African swine fever in Germany, since hogs no longer could be shipped to the country as usual.

Since then, Danish Crown has significantly increased the slaughter capacity of its slaughterhouses by hiring about 500 new employees. With this increased capacity, Danish Crown is able to take on the current volume of pigs for slaughter and has therefore announced that as of March 15 it is eliminating the quota for pig deliveries.

Between October 1, 2020 and January 31, 2021, Danish Crown member producers delivered 11% more pigs for slaughter compared to the same period last year.

March 1, 2021/ 333 Staff with information from Danish Crown.

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