Vietnam pig prices appreciate
This is the result of herd reduction in the past year.
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Your slaughterhouse is determining your future
Being a high performing farm is not a sufficient condition to future success.
Following the steps of 2015 or how to get ready for the worst
Europe has a surplus and needs to export. The USA has increased its production and needs to export. The Russian market is closed for Brazil, and Brazil needs to export…
Rabobank: Uncertainties threaten optimism in global pork trade
Uncertainty in global markets – due to disease risk, trade disputes, and feed availability – will create opportunities and challenges for the pork industry in the coming months.
French pig production increases
In January 2018, pig production grew by 4.1% in comparison with January 2017.
Losses have arrived but the fundamentals will bring the panic stricken back to reality
The impact of Chinese tariffs on US pork, the pork exports picture, feed costs forecast and more...
Easter truce
Let’s hope that spring makes consumption grow. The foreign markets hesitate, and it will not be easy to sell the European surpluses.
Vion Pork starts pilot with Vion long term price (LTP)
In March 2018, Vion Pork will launch a pilot for closed pig farms with the Vion long-term price system (LTP).
Hungary: VAT on fish and pork offal will be reduced
The VAT on fish and pork offal and by-products for human consumption will be reduced from 27 percent to 5 percent beginning in January.
The FAO Food Price Index rebounded in 2017 despite a decline in December
Despite the late-year slide, the FAO Food Price Index averaged 174.6 points in 2017, up 8.2 percent from 2016 and reaching the highest annual average since 2014.
Battle for China’s pork market in 2018
China’s pork imports have been slowing down lately, but are expected to pick up again over the rest of the year, according to RaboResearch’s latest global Pork Quarterly.
Poland requests aid for the pig sector
Poland encouraged the Commission to take action among others through: aid for private storage...
Whirlwhind of slaughterings. Uncertainty.
The threat of ASF in Germany causes that nobody wants to keep greats stocks because of the risk that they become ‘unsaleable’. This attitude of selling at all costs has caused a collapse of meat prices in Europe.
Demand for meat in Russia has increased due to the decline of pork and chicken prices
As a result of eleven months of 2017, pork accounted for 35.1% of the total volume of industrial meat production.
France: decrease in pig production in 2017
During the first nine months of 2017, the drop in pig slaughterings in France was more noticeable than at a European level: -2.7% of heads.
Iowa State develops new Crush Margin App for hog and cattle producers
The margin is calculated every Wednesday using the futures close on that date.