Articles - Economy

Summer has been hellish with skyrocketing costs, slow rising pig prices and "anchored" pork prices. Guillem Burset analyzes the current situation in the swine market and predicts what the coming months will bring.

When real incomes fall, people will buy less pork at every price, meaning that if prices come back down to previous levels, less pork will be purchased than before at every price, high or low. This is called demand destruction.

Never before had the Spanish pig price reached 1.689 €/kg live... What will happen in autumn?

Guillem Burset analyzes the current situation of the Spanish swine industry in the European and world market and gives us clues about what may happen in 2023.

With African swine fever on France's doorstep, a study assesses how much the losses would total.

Why have intra-EU trade flows of piglets, slaughter pigs, and sows changed?

These are our users' forecasts for the average pig price at slaughter for 2022. We received 831 responses from 62 countries.

We are going to be facing an extended period of inflation and wage escalation, so this is the perfect time to begin a rapid and serious reorganization of how we transport goods. It has already begun.

An early release of the economic commentary by Guillem Burset gives us the keys to understanding where the European meat industry is at this moment in time.

February comes to an end with the pig price rising. At the moment there are not enough pigs in Spain to keep up with the record pace of slaughter seen in January.

The results are in! We asked our users what they thought the average pig price in their respective countries would be in 2021. Let's see how you all did.

DiPietre analyzes the current situation, with higher costs and the supply chain in a tight spot, and gives us some tips on how to survive 2022.

A strike of this magnitude would sink the pig price to historic lows.

Pork production in China has recovered rapidly, as illustrated by the sharp drop in prices in the first half of 2021.

At a time when everything seems to be going against us, there remains the hope that the cost of production in China is much higher than in Spain...

Historic production figures and market performance from the main pork-producing countries in Latin America have shown consistent growth over the last decade.

The fall in exports to China, the disruption of COVID, PRRS, and the threat of ASF are reducing the pig herd in the US, which should ensure profitability.

Guillem Burset predicts when the Spanish pig price will bottom out, and even dares to give us a number!

Currently, the pig price in Italy is set by a Single National Commission (CUN), which began functioning on April 15, 2011.

We are so unmoored from “normal” that it makes sense to situate the current pork industry within the current macro environment.

Virtually absent pork exports to China and poor demand in the EU lead to a 17% drop in Spanish price in 7 weeks, and it will keep dropping.

How is the growing demand for greater animal welfare on farms articulated?

For the first time in 20 years, Spanish prices fell in June. We are in an extremely exceptional situation that must be corrected as soon as possible.

The pig price in Spain is the most expensive in Europe and Burset predicts that it is very close to the upper limit. China is decreasing imports, buying at cheaper prices, and therefore, is absent in the Spanish market.