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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.

The results are in! We asked our users what they thought the average pig price in their respective countries would be in 2021. Let's see how you all did.

Burset suggests a possible way out of the current situation, with Spanish prices at 1.30 or even 1.40 €/kg live. Want to know when this is coming?

A year unlike any other is coming to an end. Our analyst Guillem Burset takes a look and makes some forecasts for 2022.

At a time when everything seems to be going against us, there remains the hope that the cost of production in China is much higher than in Spain...

The fall in exports to China, the disruption of COVID, PRRS, and the threat of ASF are reducing the pig herd in the US, which should ensure profitability.

Guillem Burset predicts when the Spanish pig price will bottom out, and even dares to give us a number!

Spain's production has grown 90% in 32 years, from slaughtering 29 million head of pigs in 1989 to slaughtering more than 56 million in 2021. Explosive growth no matter how you look at it.

September will show in all its harshness the precariousness of the present moment: pigs will arrive for slaughter in droves and it remains to be seen whether slaughterhouses will be willing to process those pigs whose pork they cannot sell.

We are so unmoored from “normal” that it makes sense to situate the current pork industry within the current macro environment.

For the first time in 20 years, Spanish prices fell in June. We are in an extremely exceptional situation that must be corrected as soon as possible.

The pig price in Spain is the most expensive in Europe and Burset predicts that it is very close to the upper limit. China is decreasing imports, buying at cheaper prices, and therefore, is absent in the Spanish market.

Pig market: Unbridled in Spain, unsettled in Europe, and with question marks in China. Pork market: rock bottom in Europe.

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.

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...