Spanish pig industry: Committing to efficiency and sustainability
Spanish producers should make it a priority to be more efficient and should realize that growth cannot continue indefinitely.
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Environmental Footprint Calculator along the pork value chain.
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Simulator that calculates the amount of drug to add to the water when using a flow dispenser.
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Spanish producers should make it a priority to be more efficient and should realize that growth cannot continue indefinitely.
Random shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic will severely disrupt supply chains.
We believe that the price of pork in Spain won't drop until after summer.
A hard Brexit would mean a fall of EU pork exports to the UK of 48%, a fall on pig prices of 7% and a total of 33,000 job losses in the European meat industry.
Pork supply, pork consumption and purchasing power in China, US and China trade war and globalism are some of the balls in play and many more are to come.
Spain is the leading supplier of pork for France, with more than 315,000 tonnes per year.
Right now it all depends on the evolution of the situation in China.
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.
The Spanish market has taken a rest for Easter, but the rises will go on.
There is a fear that President Trump’s public face to Mexico and China may result in lower export sales for the coming year.
The heat and the decrease in the supply in Germany have supported the Spanish pig price in September. Europe will only be able to go on with its prices if it can absorb its production and the exports to Asia keep on.
The Spanish price will still exceed €1.30/kg whilst the supply remains restricted. The battle will be held in September, and it will all depend on the foreign markets.
The headwinds to a 30% rise in carcass prices expected into the summer include a relative abundance of pork and all other meats coupled with much lower retail prices emerging in the meat case, ...
When global supplies of pork are large, as they are now, the name of the game for major production areas is growing net exports.
The only prospect for growth in both the EU and the US is increasing net export sales. We are at an interesting cross-roads about which pork producing nation or group of nations will capture that opportunity.
We can assure Pope Francis that neither of the two big regional trade agreements will result in “unfettered capitalism” but the one between the US and EU could result in the US having more than two kinds of cheese, (currently yellow and white)