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Analyst Guillem Burset reviews the current situation of the main European pig markets. Spain stands out against the current. Will it be able to hold out?

In an unprecedented year, how did 333 users’ predictions match up with the actual average pig price in their country? Let’s compare the results from 13 countries.

A summary of how the Argentine pig industry has grown, looking at production, imports, exports. What are projections like for the future?

IFIP with InterPIG data summarizes how production costs evolved in 19 different countries and regions.

It must be acknowledged that for Spanish swine industry not only has not been a bad year but it rather has been an excellent year.

Prices are drifting down to close out the year and if you look to the futures as a guide for next year, it is boringly normal. This happens when people have no real idea what to expect…

Pig prices in the European markets deteriorated significantly last week. The German market was the only one to hold out.

The price of pork in Spain is the highest in Europe, both currently and in terms of the average so far this year (although the downward trend observed is irreversible in the short-term and will continue).

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.

Flexibility is paramount now. How will pork production change in the coming years?

Although the price of pork in Germany remains frozen, in Spain it continues to rise and is already three times higher than the United States...

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.

Pork prices are declining due to lower demand from slaughterhouses affected by labor shortages and problems in foreign market access.

The price of pork in Spain is well above that of Europe. With a weekly slaughter of 1,000,000 head, how will coronavirus affect slaughterhouse workers or reduce purchasing from the hotel and catering industry?

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.