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All points towards the rise in prices keeping a good pace in the first forthnight of June.
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All points towards the rise in prices keeping a good pace in the first forthnight of June.
The worst has already passed. We will have to see where our price can get to.
The bearish indicators still hang heavy over the industry and some have actually increased.
The first two or three weeks of April will be useful for absorbing the delayed pigs, and by the end of April the price will be able to rise, step by step, to more decent levels.
There is a total crisis situation in all Europe.
Spanish abattoirs are slaughtering at their maximum capacity, but nevertheless, several weeks will be needed (probably until late February) to reabsorb the accumulation of delayed pigs.
In order to dream of better prices we must find a bottom from where to rebound. We are very probably there, although Spanish market is, right now, heavier than the German one.
When global supplies of pork are large, as they are now, the name of the game for major production areas is growing net exports.
It has been years since we last saw such a risky price and situation.
The European market is saturated with pork since late summer. The WHO's report has been an ice-cold shower for the whole of the European pig sector.
The only prospect for growth in both the EU and the US is increasing net export sales. We are at an interesting cross-roads about which pork producing nation or group of nations will capture that opportunity.
We think that in October the price will still fall in Spain. A correction for the alignment with our neighbours is prevailing.
The harsh reality is that the outlook is bleak in all Europe.
Big news in US as Seaboard and Triumph Foods announce plans to build and operate a large-scale packing plant in Sioux City. One of the things which this move signals is the further coordination of the production sector with consumer demand.
April has gone by with a surprising change in the trend of several European markets.
Everyone in the United States is waiting for the return of the seasonal pattern and the prospect of prices breaking out of this extended period of flat-lining which has gone on for almost two months now.