Tight supply continues to stimulate pig prices

The supply for next week is again on the tight side, without any shortages, as both traders and slaughterhouses experience. The supply will probably dry up further in the coming weeks. There are no disruptive factors in the form of broken weeks.

Pig farmers are still in no hurry to keep pigs. This is also not stimulated by the trade, if only to continue to find placement space for the difficult piglet sales. In addition, the price steps upwards are also too limited to stimulate this behavior. 

Germany stable, Netherlands up
While the German pig price (VEZG) continues to move sideways, Dutch slaughterhouses continue to increase. Just like two weeks ago, Vion increased again this week with retroactive effect, after initially issuing an unchanged price. In a market with few pigs, slackening in pricing is not an option to keep the supply somewhat at the same level.

The increase in the price of pigs is at the expense of the margin for slaughterhouses, which has already decreased considerably in recent weeks. Meat sales are largely continuing at an unchanged price level. Despite the better weather, there is still too little demand in the market to get prices moving. This may still happen in the coming weeks, but it is difficult to predict.

DCA Stock Price Continues to Rise
In the trade, not everyone is in favor of continuing to increase the pig price, based on the idea of ​​not skinning slaughterhouses. Those who want to increase, advocate a manageable plus. Based on the data, the DCA Exchange price for slaughtered pigs will increase, just like last week, by €0,02 to €2,14 per kilo. The price of live pigs will increase by €0,01 to €1,67 per kilo.

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