Is meat more expensive for the holidays?: the lower supply of cattle puts strong pressure on prices and veal has already increased by 60% in six months

In the middle of this year, no one suspected that the regional livestock industry would have such a busy and puzzling end of the season that very few dare to answer without fear of being wrong. The analysis of the livestock sector for this last two-month period of 2025 speaks of much uncertainty regarding what will come in the period before the holidays, and above all what can be expected for the beginning of 2026 in terms of prices. Although there are some certainties in the market that can be summarized as: elevated prices that threaten to keep rising, strong exports that increasingly demand more livestock, limited supply of animals as a consequence of a multi-year drought that forced a reduction in stocks in the countryside. With this panorama that all the actors in the livestock sector share to a greater or lesser extent, the truth is that the regional livestock industry is going through the period of the highest values in recent years. Values that were consolidated in the ...