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Pig prices are on the rise
The pig market is clearly 'on', given the rapidly rising slaughterhouse prices in our country. The German pig price has also caught up. Pig prices are currently clearly rising faster than the meat market. How does that work?
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Slaughterhouses are again choosing their own path this week. Vion kicked off yesterday with a plus of 6 cents, which was then surpassed by Westfort and Van Rooi in terms of change with 8 cents. Compaxo even increased by 9 cents, which also partly included a correction.
With this, the slaughterhouses exceed the change in the DCA Beursprijs, which rose by 5 cents last Friday. With the increases, the prices are back at the highest level since the end of 2024. Such large steps upwards have not been taken since spring 2024.
Pig price rises faster than meat market
The conclusion that can be drawn from the quotations is that there is a run on pigs in our country. This is also indicated by traders. Based on the DCA meat mutations this week the raw material value of the carcass has increased by more than 3 cents per kilo. This means that the pig prices are increasing considerably faster than the meat value, as slaughterhouses also report.
German market rebounds
In Germany, the VEZG quotation took a big step up this week, as expected, with a plus of €0,13 to €1,85 per kilo. The German pig sector had informally agreed that the quotations would remain the same until the end of March in order to get more rest when foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) severely disrupted the market at the beginning of this year. This agreement has now expired.