China: Prices of livestock products and feed in the first week of October

According to the monitoring of 500 county markets and collection points across the country, in the first week of October (the collection date was October 8), the prices of commercial egg-laying chicks, commercial broiler chicks, and soybean meal rose month-on-month, while the prices of pig products, eggs, chicken, beef, corn, fattening pig compound feed, broiler compound feed, and laying hen compound feed fell month-on-month, and the prices of mutton and raw milk remained unchanged month-on-month. Prices of pig products. The national average price of piglets was 37.62 yuan/kg, down 4.5% from the previous week and up 28.7% year-on-year. The price of piglets fell in 28 provinces including Ningxia, Shanghai, Xinjiang, Hebei, and Shandong, while the price in Tianjin remained unchanged. The price in North China was higher, at 40.31 yuan/kg; the price in Southwest China was lower, at 34.53 yuan/kg. The national average price of pigs was 18.39 yuan/kg, down 2.9% from the previous week ...