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Spanish producers should make it a priority to be more efficient and should realize that growth cannot continue indefinitely.

Lots of things brewing out there with both supply and demand. Rarely do we get such action at the same time on both sides of the price determination.

In less than 48 hours German exports halted, so every week about 9,000 extra tonnes of pork need to be sold within the EU.

How long this will last is anyone’s guess but here are a few things which combine to provide the briefest pause, for a moment of hope.

Spanish slaughterhouses are demonstrating extraordinary resilience. Pig prices in Spain are grossly higher than in any of the competing European countries.

For most of the month, our price in Spain has been 25 cents higher than in Holland and about 20 cents higher than Germany. What is the key?

Making predictions is never easy, but making future projections in these times of COVID-19 proves difficult for even the best analysts.

It seems that we have already hit the price bottom, although no one is ruling out the possibility of COVID-19 infections reappearing. We will worry in due time, not now, about what may happen when China regains its self-sufficiency.

The severity of the pig euthanasia curve will be determined by how successful producers are at slowing pig growth as well as how successful packers are at returning to full harvest efficiency.

It is not the strongest, the fastest, or the smartest who survive, but those who are best able to adapt to change.

A 10% cumulative drop in the price of pork in Spain seems mild, very mild indeed for what is to come. Hold on tight, there are curves coming...

The challenges facing the global pork chain from the multi-headed monster pandemics of African Swine Fever in swine and COVID-19 disease in humans are breathtaking.

Random shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic will severely disrupt supply chains.

Restoring normalcy in China is the key factor in the current world market for pork. That's just how things stand.

In May 2019 we asked the users of 333 what they expected the maximum price to be in their country. Let's see who was right...

We believe that the price of pork in Spain won't drop until after summer.

First ASF, now Coronavirus, back-to-back black swan events have rocked the global economy and troubled the global meat industry. How to face the next one?

In US, even with record China sales, production overwhelms the markets, a quite different situation than in Spain, where pig prices soar while packers make handsome profits on exports without being able to raise the prices for pork going into domestic and retail sales.

With the emergence of artificial, "lab-grown" meat, What does the future hold for livestock farming? will livestock farming disappear all-together?

The high baseline demand of China on the pork side, due to ASF, will hide how plant-based meats creep up on traditional meat product demand.

Production reaps an ample harvest of profits while processing continues to accumulate losses. China imports more and more...

Will the process of pig herd recovery in China be fast or slow?

The pig price in China has grown by 27.5% in 4 weeks from an already record price.

China has been buying great volumes of pork cuts in all Europe for a few weeks. The pig price in China has shown a spectacular rise.