Brazil: Consumer puts the brakes on the pig's high price

By Giovanni Lorenzon Caption: Pork has risen in the hitchhiker of beef, but faces resistance at the end (Image: REUTERS / Tingshu Wang) The pork producer has already felt the brake that the consumer is also imposing on this meat, which has entered in the ride of the high of the bovine protein. And you should not be encouraged, too, to renew prices a lot in the hope of a fatter Christmas consumption, traditionally. This in Rio Grande do Sul, but also replicated in other states, thinks Valdecir Folador, president of the Association of Pig Breeders in Rio Grande do Sul (Acsurs), for whom the limit has already reached the end of the chain, and went back to the gate at slower form of search. In one week, the live kg in the independent farm, placed in the state's slaughterhouses, fell by R $ 0.37, worth R $ 8.54, in a survey of the entity, which in slightly longer data, up to two weeks, also noted inflection for price adjustments. Even with a very fair production in 2020, under the ...