Real impulse is still missing on the pig market

The supply of pigs is more than sufficient with the cancellation of a slaughter day on Whit Monday. However, a large number of pigs have still been sold in recent weeks to Polish and Spanish slaughterhouses, which, according to some traders, show a reasonable interest in animals ready for slaughter. This is also evident from figures from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). For weeks, around 6.000 pigs for slaughter have been crossing the border to Spain and around 2.000 to Poland.

Meat trade more stable
Although there is some mild optimism on the left and right, including from slaughterhouses, about the development of demand on export markets, these movements cannot yet give the price for pork parts a real boost. This week too, the DCA mutations for pork parts show an unchanged picture. Only the price for hams recorded a small increase of €0,02 per kilo.

The number of slaughters in Germany increased again after the short slaughter week with Ascension Day last week. 808.000 pigs were processed, about 135.000 more than the previous week. The average gender weight remained unchanged at 97,1 kilos.

The German VEZG quotation is again this week at €1,80 per kilo of slaughtered weight. Tönnies and Vion follow. In the meantime, there remains a large supply on the market for slaughter sows and slaughterers are in the mood to further depress German quotations.