In Brazil, swine farmers absorb casualties earlier this year

Even without taking into account the receipt of wages from the active population, pork consumption shows the cooling down of the period and, with that, the sale of live pigs to pig farmers presents the consequences of this fragile environment with the first closings for slaughter next week pointing to price declines. Even so, the result of the new low – the 2nd of the week, of the month and of the year – is an average price of live hog that shows increases of 3.6% over the same period of last December and 21.3% over the same period last year's day. In the short term, there is no favorable expectation for pig farmers in the marketing of barley until surplus stocks in ...