Are abattoirs the ugly duckling? – Forecasts for 2019
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The cornerstone of the Spanish pig sector is the extreme efficiency of its abattoirs and cutting rooms.
Ending the year with a price similar to that of the cost price and with a more than significant growth in production can only be considered as excellent.
How is the increase in global meat production, low-cost coarse grains and ASF going to affect pig production?
There is no doubt if the disease is discovered in a major piglet or pork producing/exporting country such as Denmark, Germany, Spain or the USA, the mortality it causes would be only the beginning of the woes.
Right now it all depends on the evolution of the situation in China.
As a producer, aligning with a packer-processor that is exhibiting the characteristics of a long-term successful and resilient player with access to the global market is critical for success regardless of how efficient you have become as a producer.
There was a time when pig price was determined by seasonal patterns and total production… Now the belly price is driving the carcass price in the United States.
Every week a new price is set that reflects a momentary and unstable but necessary and essential balance.
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…
The impact of Chinese tariffs on US pork, the pork exports picture, feed costs forecast and more...
Let’s hope that spring makes consumption grow. The foreign markets hesitate, and it will not be easy to sell the European surpluses.
Huge supplies, increasing production and an efficient, coordinated global chain fuels low cost soybean meal, cheap feed and high profits.
We come to the close of a year filled with happy surprises in the hog industry. 2018 will be a year of continued growth in income for most nations throughout the world. Higher incomes bring more demand for pork.
Spanish pig prices will still fall, but the great question is: until where? The answer is not an easy one, but we tend to think that…
There is a lot of uncertainty about what will happen to the US pork export picture now that President Trump has pulled out of TPP and wants to renegotiate NAFTA.
Export markets can keep profits flowing even if the industry nudges production into record territory.