Meat market in Poland on March 12, 2023

Published Mar 24, 2023

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The article reports on the recent trends in livestock and meat prices in Poland and the European Union (EU) for the week of March 6-12, 2023. It highlights a slight decrease in the purchase price of pigs and an increase in the purchase price of slaughter cattle and poultry compared to the previous week and the prices from a month and a year earlier. The selling prices of pork, beef, and poultry meat also show variations, with pork half-carcasses and poultry meat carcasses experiencing increases compared to the previous week and the prices from a month and year ago. The article also notes the differences in live pig and pork half-carcass prices across various EU countries, with Poland paying above the average and the Netherlands and other countries paying below.

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Live pig purchase prices On the domestic market on March 6-12, 2023, the purchase price of pigs (data from the Integrated Agricultural Market Information System of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) was PLN 8.22/kg, i.e. PLN 0.04/kg lower than in the previous week . Livestock was 4% more expensive than a month earlier and 33% more than a year ago. On average in the EU within a week, class E slaughter pigs increased by 0.6% to EUR 228.63/100 kg of chilled slaughter weight. The price of this livestock was 8% higher than a month ago and 42% higher than last year. In Poland, this class of slaughter pigs was paid EUR 229.62/100 kg, which is 0.4% more than the EU average. Lower than in Poland prices of live pigs were observed, among others, in in the Netherlands by EUR 20.45/100 kg, and higher e.g. in France by EUR 8.38/100 kg, Germany by EUR 7.94/100 kg and Spain by EUR 4.11/100 kg. Selling prices of pork In the second week of March 2023, pork half-carcasses were sold ...

Source: Gospodarz