Brazil: Live hog price in the South region drops by 7.5% during 2022

Although in the last two months of last year they reached the best prices of 2022 in the South region and very close to those received in the same period of the previous year, during the year pig farmers received lower prices than those achieved in 2021. The amount accumulated over the year reached an average value of R$5.76, down 7.5% over the same period of the previous year, while pointing to an increase of 15% over what was received during 2020, when prices began to show strong evolution during the second semester, reaching a record price not yet surpassed in ...