Swine farmers in Brazil achieve a significant readjustment at the end of last week

On the last day of business last week, the pork market showed pig farmers with limited supplies of barley in the breeding base and, on the other hand, slaughterhouses needing to increase slaughter scales in preparation for the good prospects of the current week. The result was a strong increase in closures performed with live pigs. The readjustment – 1st of the week, 1st of the month, 2nd of the year – raised the average price of live hogs to the value practiced in the same period of last January, while pointing to significant increments of 51.3% and 26.6% over, respectively, same day last year and the day before. The ...