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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).
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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.
Philippines: Tight supply pushing up pork prices
Supply of pork is tight due to the continuing decline in the number of backyard farmers over the past few years. This has resulted in the significantly higher suggested retail price of the commodity in the local market.
Brazil pig prices? Check them on our website
Santa Catarina and Paraná pig prices now available on our pig price information system.
FAO: Meat prices are exception in general downward trend
Global food prices monitored by FAO fell in March, with the exception of meat prices.
Expected summer highs are slipping
Much in the summer will depend on the opening of the increased market capacity (as two major new plants swing open) and the industry reacts to it.
Hope becomes established and predictions are confirmed: prices take a run up...
The prices rise in all Europe. In the last market session in March the German price has only grown by €0.07/kg carcass weight, and this conveys firmness and security all over the place.
EU: Short-term outlook for agricultural markets 2017-2018
EU meat production reached a record level in 2016 but is showing signs of downward adjustments. Sustained pigmeat exports to China facilitated a recovery in the EU price.
Riding a powerful diesel engine
Since late January until today, the price at Mercolleida has regained €0.066. We could say that the Spanish price is riding a powerful diesel engine that is propelling it upwards inexorably.
China: pork imports to determine start of seasonal price rise
The level to which China imports pork after Chinese New Year will determine the start of the seasonal increase of the Rabobank Five-Nation Hog Price Index, according to the latest Rabobank Pork Quarterly report.
Prospects for 2017: an optimistic view
Always well-informed economic operators think that the average price in 2017 will not be lower than €1.20/kg, which would not be bad at all.
Belgium: suppression and reduction of the contributions for the pig and cattle sectors
The Belgian Parliament has approved measures for supporting the pig and cattle producers.
Food commodity prices fall for fifth year in a row in 2016
Prices of major food commodities declined for the fifth year in a row in 2016, averaging 161.6 points for the year as a whole, some 1.5 percent below their 2015 levels.
Belgium: agreement against the volatility of prices in the pig sector
A group of pig producers and pork processors have signed an agreement with the aim of reducing the volatility of the prices.