For Juan Uccelli, the seasonal dynamics of pork prices in Argentina do not make sense and he put together a plan to try to stabilize it

Published Jun 30, 2021

Tridge summary

Juan Uccelli, a prominent figure in Argentina's pig industry, has identified the cyclical price fluctuations in the local pork market as a major issue and is advocating for efforts to stabilize prices through inter-chain collaboration. He attributes these price swings to factors like changing demand for sausages and inefficient selling strategies by producers. To address these challenges, Uccelli proposes improved communication among industry stakeholders, including producers, processors, exporters, and retailers, and the strategic analysis of export practices to boost the value of pork cuts. A significant portion of Argentina's pork production (5-6%) is exported, primarily to China, but there is potential to improve the profitability of half beef exports by including high-value cuts currently excluded. This initiative seeks to enhance the competitiveness of Argentina's pork products, both domestically and internationally.

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With more than twenty years of experience in the pig sector, the zootechnical engineer and former president of the Association of Swine Producers, Juan Uccelli, was encouraged from his consultancy to thoroughly analyze the behavior of the pig market in Argentina. Uccelli believes that one of the main problems of the sector is that the value of pork in the Argentine market goes cyclically through a period of four months of bad prices and another four where it can reach the "clouds". That imbalance, he says, produces imbalances that affect the development of this production. Thus, Uccelli proposed a project to try to stabilize price dynamics. “This four-month thing has been historic for a long time and there is no logical answer. April, May, June and July are very complicated months and from September onwards the price rises. The good intention that I try to put into this is to stabilize the price through common agreements between the different links, so that the price does not go ...

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