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The outlook for 2024 will depend on the dynamics of the main producers: China, the European Union, the United States, and Brazil.

We will see if the spring market begins at Easter, as is tradition, or if it is delayed due to these dates falling too early.

February was full of very dynamic changes in the pig market in Poland. How will the market develop over the next month?

Pig prices are rising briskly and steadily. Will the market be a carbon copy of last year? Guillem Burset doesn't think so. He thinks we won't reach 2.025 €/kg live…

At the beginning of last year, we asked our users what they thought the average pig price would be in their respective countries in 2023. Want to know who came closest?

Detection of lung lesions in slaughtered pigs also allows estimation of economic losses.

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.

After months and months, the Spanish price has dropped to be in line with those of its community partners; the cause has been the difficulty in exporting to Third Countries, although the reduced slaughter in Central Europe has been a lifesaver.

Over the years, the EU has established regulations that have governed the industry. How has this affected the profitability of production and the prospects for the EU pork market?

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.

The Spanish pig price can only go down. The million-dollar question is when.

Every 10 years, the Agricultural Census provides a snapshot of French agriculture. In 2020, metropolitan France had 389,779 farms (-20% in 10 years).

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.

The self-sufficiency rate of pig production in the EU will tend to decrease, approaching 110% instead of 125% as it has been until recently. Burset reviews the situation in the leading countries.

The key problem is that much of the profit reduction (lost opportunity) is caused by a subset (often relatively small) of the total barn population.