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Pig market is working towards Christmas in a relaxed way
Now that the price rally is over, the pig market can calmly work towards the broken weeks around Christmas and New Year. The demand for meat has clearly dropped, but the market is still reasonably solid for the time being.
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The German pork price stabilized today (December 14) for the second week in a row at €2 per kilo. This movement is followed by the slaughterhouses, both in the Netherlands and Germany. There is more spice in the slaughter sow market. Now that piglet prices are rising again, sow farmers have become more reluctant to supply them. The slaughter sow market is benefiting from the cold weather in Europe.
Positive undertone
The big question is whether the pork price can maneuver through the broken weeks without damage. That is a challenge every year. A stroke of luck this year is that the holidays largely fall on the weekend, but that does not alter the fact that the meat processing industry in Europe will clearly scale down in the coming weeks. Although the undertone in the market feels positive, it is difficult to predict how the coming weeks will unfold.
The fact is that quite a lot of supply has also been slaughtered in Germany. In the past week, the German slaughter figure rose to 792.499, the highest number of slaughters since mid-May. There will also be a lot of slaughter this week, after which the demand for pigs ready for slaughter will drop for a few weeks.