Analysis Pigs
Slow slaughter rate does not help piglet market either
The extreme price pressure in Germany also affects the Dutch piglet market, although the price decrease is more moderate here. In a market with a lot of uncertainty and large price decreases it is difficult to find buyers for a couple of piglets.
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To get sales going better, stabilization on the pig market could help. But whether that will happen on Wednesday is still very much the question. A higher speed on the slaughter line could also help, but that does not offer a helping hand either. With 294.477 slaughters in week 2, the Dutch slaughter figure remained below the 2017 pig limit for the first time since 300.000. This while the number of pigs in our country has not increased in recent years.
Exports also offer no helping hand. In the sense that Spain is interested (and also on the market), but buyers for remaining flocks are hard to find. There is also a lot of reluctance for Dutch piglets on the German sales market.
Decline for BPP
Calm and stabilisation on the pig market are the only remedy to get the piglet market back on track. For the time being, this is not the case. The DCA BestPigletPrice is falling this week by €5 to €49 per piglet. This has wiped out the increase that was visible since November in one fell swoop. The German VEZG piglet price is falling this week by no less than €10 to €45 per piglet.
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