In early 2024, Poland's live pig purchase prices saw a slight increase of 0.5% week-on-week, but were still 5% lower than the previous month. Meanwhile, the EU's average price for class E slaughter pigs fell by 0.2% within a week. Pork half-carcasses in Poland were sold 2% cheaper week-on-week and 8% cheaper than at the start of January. Slaughter cattle prices increased by 1% from the previous month but were 8% lower than the previous year. Prices for live poultry, including broiler chickens, turkeys, and broiler ducks, decreased both week-on-week and month-on-month. Gutted chicken carcasses were sold 1% higher than the previous week but were 10% lower than the previous month.
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Purchase prices of live pigs On the domestic market, at the turn of January and February 2024, the downward trend in purchase prices of live pigs, which had been in force since the beginning of December 2023, stopped. From January 29 to February 4, 2024, in plants monitored under the Integrated Agricultural Market Information System of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the price of slaughter pigs was PLN 6.71/kg, which is 0.5% higher than a week earlier, but 5% lower. % than a month ago. At the same time, live pigs were 9% cheaper than last year. In the EU, the average price of class E slaughter pigs decreased by 0.2% within a week and amounted to EUR 200.82/100 kg of chilled slaughter weight. It was 4% lower than a month ago and 2% lower than a year ago. In Poland, the price of live pigs of this class expressed in the EU currency was EUR 202.11/100 kg, i.e. 0.6% higher than the EU average. The average purchase prices of slaughter pigs from the largest EU pork ...
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