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Despite its many limitations, outdoor farming is a different way of approaching pig production and it does have some management routines which should make us reflect when we tackle management and design of indoor farms.

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?

Producing well with a low antimicrobial usage: Is it possible in high pig-density areas? And, what is the role of the age at weaning?

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.

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

As a producer, aligning with a packer-processor that is exhibiting the characteristics of a long-term successful and resilient player with access to the global market is critical for success regardless of how efficient you have become as a producer.

7% drop in belly price in a single day is signaling the end of the summer seasonal prices.

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

As of today, with 2017 almost ended, the annual Spanish pig price (arithmetic, not weighted) mean is €1.26/kg LW.

Spain is, regarding pig census, the third country in the world in relation to pig production, behind China and the USA, and the fourth as pork producer because Germany fattens many piglets imported from The Netherlands and Denmark, and it also slaughters pigs from these and other countries.

We come to the close of a year filled with happy surprises in the hog industry. 2018 will be a year of continued growth in income for most nations throughout the world. Higher incomes bring more demand for pork.

We are all well aware of how important it is to have a correct replacement rate, BUT are we aware of the importance and costs related to staff turnover?

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…

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.