Articles - Economy

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?

Guillem Burset analyzes the swine market in 2022 and shares his forecasts for the coming year.

It’s a global version of inventory management at the firm level where varying amounts of inventory for different goods are kept in storage because the relative cost of doing so is believed to be less than the cost of running out.

In 2021, pig producers' economic performance was hindered due to higher production costs (+14.9% on average) while prices received fell throughout Europe, except in Italy. Results were negative in 12 of the countries compared to only 5 of them in 2020.

While pig prices and inventories are falling in most of Europe, we see the center of gravity of European pig production shifting relentlessly to the southwest of the continent.

Slaughterhouses and cutting companies plan to automate their production lines but face numerous constraints that complicate implementation...

Summer has been hellish with skyrocketing costs, slow rising pig prices and "anchored" pork prices. Guillem Burset analyzes the current situation in the swine market and predicts what the coming months will bring.

When real incomes fall, people will buy less pork at every price, meaning that if prices come back down to previous levels, less pork will be purchased than before at every price, high or low. This is called demand destruction.

Never before had the Spanish pig price reached 1.689 €/kg live... What will happen in autumn?

Guillem Burset analyzes the current situation of the Spanish swine industry in the European and world market and gives us clues about what may happen in 2023.

With African swine fever on France's doorstep, a study assesses how much the losses would total.

We present the results of a recent study assessing the frequency of disease associated with S. suis infections and the main costs associated with the disease in three of Europe's main pig-producing countries.

Guillem Burset analyzes the current situation in the European swine market, which is entering uncharted territory: skyrocketing prices, exports threatened, prices of raw materials and energy going through the roof, a lack of pigs...

These are our users' forecasts for the average pig price at slaughter for 2022. We received 831 responses from 62 countries.

We are going to be facing an extended period of inflation and wage escalation, so this is the perfect time to begin a rapid and serious reorganization of how we transport goods. It has already begun.

An early release of the economic commentary by Guillem Burset gives us the keys to understanding where the European meat industry is at this moment in time.

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.

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

Pig producers are entering a season of reducing costs, but sometimes this creates greater losses, as every expense is linked to a subsequent profit. Do you want to know which costs to cut?

A strike of this magnitude would sink the pig price to historic lows.

Pork production in China has recovered rapidly, as illustrated by the sharp drop in prices in the first half of 2021.

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...

Historic production figures and market performance from the main pork-producing countries in Latin America have shown consistent growth over the last decade.