Pig prices in China have resumed their upward trend that began last July, resulting in at least 10 months of decreased production capacity. The cost of pork in China recorded the highest month-on-month increase of the year, growing 25.6% in…
Historically, over 95% of the swine inventor of China was scattered in small family holdings, with over 130 million rural households raising pigs in the early 2000s, according to the Agricultural Census. However, the industry has changed rapidly in recent…
China’s pork imports remained weak for the first five months of the year, following low local prices. From January to May, YoY variations per month were around 60% fall, taking into account both meat and offal. Meat products have been…
China’s pork output jumped 28.8% to 52.96 million tonnes in 2021, according to official data from data from the National Bureau of Statistics. This increase shows a recovery of most of the production lost during African swine fever outbreak period….
Producers in China have experienced heavy losses in 2021 due to a combination of lower hog prices, higher feed costs, and productivity challenges from disease. Taking a look at the three largest producers in terms of sow numbers, published 2021…
China’s third-quarter pork production surged to its highest in three years, pushing prices down during Q2 and Q3 and leading to a fall on imports after summer, especially in some cuts. Since March, China has significantly reduced its purchases of…
The Chinese market has been fluctuating following one of its usual deep cycles of very intense highs and lows. After the unexpected rise in supply of the first three quarters of the year, which pushed down the prices, the industry…
Falling live hog and pork prices, together with record high feed prices, have eroded profits for farmers and pork producers in the past months. Most estimates of loss per head in the industry are at 35-50 USD per head, with 10-12 million…
Pork prices in China have experienced a plunge in the first half of 2021 to levels lower that imported pork prices, which is having an impact in the global export pork market. Wholesale national pork prices closed July at 23.69…
Despite the production increase and the shrinking domestic prices, China remains in a pork deficit and will continue to import large volumes of pork during 2021. Numbers peaked in March with over 1,255 million USD of pork imported, an all-time high,…
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