Philippines swine population
Total swine population was 0.16 percent higher compared with previous year’s inventory of 12.50 million heads.
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Philippines: Government to review proposed meat-inspection fee increase
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol said the goal of the TWG is to determine a 'reasonable' rate hike that would be acceptable to both the NMIS and industry players.
We are reaching the bottom level. The end of the waterfall
Our prices will still fall, with slight drops, but it will fall, until reaching a point in which all the pigs that can be slaughtered will be slaughtered. The bottom price cannot be very far away…
“If you are offered a seat on a rocket, don’t ask which one, just get on!”
The sentence of the title is a quote from Sheryl Sandburg, COO Facebook. Contrary to all the headline grabbing scary stuff about dictators with missiles and itchy fingers, we appear to be entering a period of wide spread global economic recovery and potential prosperity that will drive big benefits to billions of people and some very special good news for pork producers worldwide.
Growing production of pork combined with falling exports could lead to lower prices
The growing production of pigmeat combined with falling exports could lead to lower prices. This is just one of the findings of the latest short term outlook report from the European Commission's agriculture and rural development department.
Accelerated drop or how the waterfall becomes a cataract
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…
Stepped cascading drop
September will witness a series of drops in price, like a cascade. The abattoirs demand incentives to increase the slaughterings. The limit of the fall will depend on the international context.
Wheat and meat push FAO Food Price Index higher in June
Global food commodity prices rose in June, led by wheat and meat prices.
Almost reaching the maximum possible price
Very probably, the Spanish price will remain above €1.40/kg liveweight until late July, supported by the weakness of the supply and helped by the weather.
FAO Meat Price Index: modest price increases
The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 171.7 points in May, up 2.5 points (1.5 percent) from April.
Nature is inescapable. June will not deceive
In June, the Spanish price will keep on rising. The heart of the matter is how much more it will increase. If it is not possible to pass on the rise in the price of pigs to pork, all the upward trend will have to be at the expense of the abattoirs’ margin.
Vietnam: MARD urges husbandry firms to save pig farms
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường called on large animal husbandry businesses to increase their purchase of pigs and keep them in frozen storage in order to help farmers reduce inventories and stop the resulting downward price spiral.
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ArticleRussia wants to continue to grow its pig industry and become a net exporter
For good farmers, pigs continue to be very profitable, but for many not! Some are even losing money (incredible though it seems).
Are the price signposts changing?
Continued emergence of producer owned packing is setting up a new closed market channel which may evolve its own pricing structures which take it farther and farther from the common, historical patterns.
Philippines: As pork prices rise, DA to allow import of 7-M kilos of pork
Meat importers will be allowed to bring in 7-million kilos of pork to stabilize the price in the market.
The FAO Meat Price Index rose
The FAO Meat Price Index rose 1.7 percent, as pigmeat prices increased in response to strong domestic demand in the European Union and increased sales to China.