There is still little momentum in pig prices, although Christmas demand is getting closer. As a result, the DCA Beursprijs 2.0 continues the stable line for a while.
As previously indicated, sentiment on the pig market is not very exciting. Supply and demand are reasonably balanced on the live market, although traders are 'complaining' about many and heavy pigs. In addition, demand for pork is too low to get things moving. This may change in the coming weeks as retailers increasingly focus on Christmas and orders from slaughterhouses and meat processors increase significantly.
However, for the time being, meat parts prices are not yet moving upwards. carcass parts prices At the beginning of this week, it became apparent that DCA had even shown a slight decline.
slaughter figures
In Germany, the supply of pigs is quite large, at least that is how slaughterhouses experience it. With 750.000 pigs, the slaughter figure last week was considerably lower than in the same period last year. This is striking, because before the broken slaughter weeks in October, more pigs were slaughtered each week than in 2023. Dutch slaughter figures for last week are not yet known.
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All in all, there is no reason to tinker with the pig price. The DCA Beursprijs 2.0 remains the same for the fourth week in a row at €1,89 per kilo for slaughtered pigs. The price of live pigs is unchanged at €1,48 per kilo.
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