Analysis Pigs & Pork
Pig price continues stable trend for now
There is still little movement in the pig prices, although the Christmas demand is getting closer. Therefore, the Dutch DCA Beursprijs 2.0 continues to follow the stable line.
As previously indicated, the sentiment in the pig market is not very exciting. Demand and supply are fairly balanced in the live market, although traders are 'complaining' about many heavy pigs. In addition, the demand for pork is too weak to get things moving. This may change in the coming weeks as retailers increasingly focus on Christmas and orders at slaughterhouses and meat processors significantly increase.
For now, however, the meat prices have not yet risen. From the carcass part prices of DCA, it was revealed earlier this week that there was even a slight decrease.
Slaughtering
In Germany, the supply of pigs is quite ample, at least that's how slaughterhouses perceive it. With 750,000 pigs, the slaughter figure was considerably lower last week than in the same period last year. This is remarkable because for the broken slaughter weeks in October, more pigs were slaughtered weekly than in 2023. Dutch slaughter figures for last week are not yet known.
DCA Beursprijs 2.0
All in all, there is no reason to adjust the pig price. The DCA Beurprijs 2.0 remains unchanged for the fourth week in a row at €1.89 per kilo for slaughtered pigs. The price of live pigs remains unchanged at €1.48 per kilo.
