Articles - Economy

Are prices stabilizing in Poland? How do Polish prices currently compare to other countries?

The European Union will continue to be a "privileged island in world pig prices."

European, Brazilian, and American pork exporters compete not only for China but also for Japan and Korea.

In 2022, high feed prices pushed up the cost of pig production in all countries, with an average increase of 27%.

Bartosz Czarniak analyzes the profitability data of Polish pig production in December and compares it with the data for August.

We are at the end of an exceptional and strange year. Guillem Burset examines the factors that have shaped the hog market this year.

Guillem Burset gives us the keys to understanding the current European pork trade situation. He also forecasts when the price will stop falling.

Strong growth in production and thus exports is followed by an unstoppable concentration. ASF, a threat.

Entering the European common market and the subsequent eradication of ASF was a turning point for pig production in Spain.

The pig price in Spain has been falling for nine consecutive weeks. Guillem Burset gives us the keys to interpret this.

It started by producing pigs, then pork, then food and products with certain characteristics... Is there any other way for producers?

After four months of being at the limit, the price is gliding down - seemingly without panic - in search of a bottom.

Mercolleida has had the same price for the 13th time in a row. Spain continues to have the most expensive pig price in the world in what is now known as the "Spanish Miracle".

What implications do current hog prices in Spain have for exports and slaughterhouses? How will we manage the typical reduced supply in the summer, exacerbated this year by PRRS?

We continue to talk about subpopulations within the farm. Here, we discuss how to optimize the sow group according to parity number to improve productivity.

Slaughterhouses will suffer a very complicated summer; in addition to the normal lack of pigs, there will be the absence of hundreds of thousands of piglets, victims of PRRS. Sooner rather than later, we will only be able to slaughter just four days a week.

This article provides an example of the cost per ton of CO₂ saved by reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions through daily slurry removal and anaerobic digestion.

European and American users are optimistic and forecast prices even higher than current levels, while in Asia the forecasts are lower.

We are witnessing a reconversion of the industry. We have seen a string of all-time record hog prices and now pork prices for processors are also rising, but large-scale distributors are only willing to raise prices in dribs and drabs.

Last February we asked our users what they thought the average price of pigs in their respective countries would be in 2022. Want to know who came closest?

Where would you begin to develop new and valuable information about your farm’s profitability (or lack thereof) that you are not monitoring now? Certainly, one of the most important ones is to visualize your data in a new way.

What is happening with Spanish pig prices? Guillem Burset explains this anomaly in the international market.

Against a background of rising commodity prices, European pig farmers are reducing their production, which will lead to a decrease in supply on the hog market in 2023 and to prices remaining at high levels.

No doubt you often hear comments about the number of pigs in a country, but... how do we know if there are many or few pigs in a country? How do we compare?