Pork market in the EU

The EU pig market has maintained stability this week, as demand will gradually decrease during the year-end holiday period and slaughter has remained sustained, with farmers taking advantage of these last days to market their pigs before the stoppage of activity. In Germany, the price has repeated at €2/kg carcass. The result of the livestock census for November is eagerly awaited. The first estimates for regions such as Lower Saxony and Baden-Württemberg point to decreases of 15% in breeders!!. In the rest of the northern countries of the EU, prices have also repeated. The recent dynamism of trade towards the countries of Central and Eastern Europe will give way to the Christmas truce. In France the price is repeated. Slaughter in the West area of Uniporc reached 372,827 pigs slaughtered, 9,000 fewer pigs than the previous week. The weights maintain a downward trend at 95.97 kilos, (-346 g). In Spain, the price has also been repeated. According to Mercolleida, supply and demand ...