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The relationship between the farmer and the abattoir, daily and passionate most of the time, ends up creating a bond. Its quality will, undoubtedly, be put to the test in Spain.

The cornerstone of the Spanish pig sector is the extreme efficiency of its abattoirs and cutting rooms.

Dennis DiPietre is increasingly convinced that 2019 is setting up to be the year of the great pork price mirage.

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?

The almost mimetic similarity between the Spanish price curve in 2015 and 2018 ends here and now. We think that it is completely impossible that the decrease in price reaches €0.95, like then.

The appearance of ASF in Belgium has entailed a real blow for the EU pig sector.

Right now it all depends on the evolution of the situation in China.

In Iberia, pig prices have reached this year’s peak. Now, prices can only drop… The evolution of prices is very similar to that in 2015.

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.

Being a high performing farm is not a sufficient condition to future success.

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.

The threat of ASF in Germany causes that nobody wants to keep greats stocks because of the risk that they become ‘unsaleable’. This attitude of selling at all costs has caused a collapse of meat prices in Europe.