Page 31 of articles about market prices

Just like the emergent molten lava from Mount Kilauea, so an historical metric of the US hog industry, having lay dormant for many years, is creeping ever so slowly over its profit destroying "trigger" level. That metric is the hog corn ratio.

Europe as a whole has a flat depressive profile with the prices in the minimum levels of the last three years.

During July Germany has made a strong challenge that is difficult to process for the whole of Europe.

The future for the European pig producers seems clear and the heart of the matter lies in knowing how the different markets will reposition themselves.

Increased prices for pork will lead to decreases in quantity demanded by the vast majority of consumers, export and domestic. This is especially the case in the current structurally high unemployment situation which has seen inflation-adjusted per capita personal income fall steadily since the market crash of 2007.