FAO Food Price Index falls to its lowest value since September 2009
The May decline was driven by a 3.8 percent monthly drop in the cereal price index, a 2.9 percent drop in the dairy price index and a one percent drop in the meat price index.
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Good News and Big Changes Coming in the US
Big news in US as Seaboard and Triumph Foods announce plans to build and operate a large-scale packing plant in Sioux City. One of the things which this move signals is the further coordination of the production sector with consumer demand.
European Union: Private Storage Aid for Pigmeat may be requested until today, May 8
The deadline for submitting applications for private storage aid for pigmeat under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/360 will be today, May 8, 2015.
May: Everything is new under the sun
April has gone by with a surprising change in the trend of several European markets.
We awaken to hope every morning but reality tucks us in at night
Everyone in the United States is waiting for the return of the seasonal pattern and the prospect of prices breaking out of this extended period of flat-lining which has gone on for almost two months now.
FAO food price index drops again in March
The FAO Food Price Index continued to decline in March, dropping 1.5 percent from February and 18.7 percent (40 points) below its level a year earlier.
Looking forward to the barbecues
Guillem Burset comments on various current affairs of the European pig market: stocks and private storage, merger of Tican and Danish Crown, prospects on the price recovery…
Punxsutawney Pork!
Unfortunately, it looks like the ground hog of pork price forecasts saw a long shadow when it emerged in late February and the tiny bubble of hope that the already late-to-end seasonal lows of winter were over was put on hold.
European Union: new short-term agricultural market outlook
A higher pig herd and increased productivity following the implementation of welfare rules in the sow sector should create conditions for a continuous recovery in production over the projection period at around 23 million tonnes.
Germany or the strongest guy in the class
The prices recover both in northern and southern Europe.
France: measures for the pig sector
The Minister of Agriculture and the pig sector have met to look for solutions before the situation faced by the sector.
Encouraging rebound
In February, the price should improve, slightly and with difficulty, but it should ameliorate.
Rabobank: pork market turbulence will remain
According to Rabobank, in 2015 turbulence will remain with uncertainty about the possible remergence of PEDv, the developments regarding ASF...
Italy implements the Single National Commission for Piglets
The Single National Commission for Piglets: a new single national market for watching, protecting and making the piglets' market transparent.
FAO food price index drops in December
2014 is third consecutive year of falling prices as all commodity groups except for meat decline.
Economic black clouds
We think that administrations must take urgent actions regarding the crisis in the pig sector.