Analysis Pigs
Pig market recovers from strong price corrections
The decline in the price of pigs was, as expected, short but powerful. Now that slaughterhouses have recovered their margins with the price corrections, there is more calm in the market again.
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Was it the pig price that put pressure on meat prices, or was it the other way around? Either way, both pig prices and meat prices parts listings have recently fallen sharply. The fall in pig prices was slightly faster than the fall in carcass value based on the parts prices. This means that slaughterhouses have repaired their margins in the run-up to Christmas and are therefore better positioned than they were initially.
Rippling meat sales
Christmas is meanwhile becoming more and more of a theme in the meat market, but demand is not yet up to speed. It is simply too early in the calendar for that, but it will not last much longer. In the meantime, meat sales continue to hesitate, or in other words, to meander. Dutch slaughterhouses are suffering from cheap supply, mainly from Spain. Both within Europe and beyond.
The supply of pigs in our country is sufficient to ample. In Germany there are also enough pigs as a result of two cancelled slaughter days in October. Upward price movements are not in sight for the time being, but the pressure on pig prices has been lifted.
The DCA Beursprijs 2.0 remains the same at €1,89 per kilo for slaughtered pigs. The price of live pigs remains at €1,48 per kilo.
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