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The exports to Asia have drained the stocks and have made all the European prices grow.
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Description of the most important diseases and conditions in pigs
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Tool that allows you to calculate the replacement rate in your farm
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Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
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The exports to Asia have drained the stocks and have made all the European prices grow.
All points towards the rise in prices keeping a good pace in the first forthnight of June.
In the long term, Chinese producers will have to gain access to their own processors in order to break the information barrier which prevents precision investment in the production process.
The bearish indicators still hang heavy over the industry and some have actually increased.
The first two or three weeks of April will be useful for absorbing the delayed pigs, and by the end of April the price will be able to rise, step by step, to more decent levels.
There is a total crisis situation in all Europe.
Spanish abattoirs are slaughtering at their maximum capacity, but nevertheless, several weeks will be needed (probably until late February) to reabsorb the accumulation of delayed pigs.
In order to dream of better prices we must find a bottom from where to rebound. We are very probably there, although Spanish market is, right now, heavier than the German one.
The European market is saturated with pork since late summer. The WHO's report has been an ice-cold shower for the whole of the European pig sector.
Pig farming in Ukraine is developing lively. The market deficit lowers the entry barriers that are almost absent.
The estimated cost of PRRS for European pig producers is 1,5b € every year.
The harsh reality is that the outlook is bleak in all Europe.
Growth curves as a tool to help manage weight variability among pigs.
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.
Export markets may not be as robust as forecast by USDA due to very slow economic growth and actual recession in many countries. Add to that the massive value increase of the dollar versus its chief competitive currencies as the cost of oil plummeted…
USA breeding herd expansion seems inevitable.