(AMI) - pig prices across Europe are under pressure. The emergence of larger often exceeds the demand on the part of the abattoirs in several countries. Pork demand has also lost momentum.
In France , a battle leader has called a marked price correction down, which probably also account. The demand for slaughter pigs is weak at stable to increasing slaughter weight. The justifications to the weak demand for meat are the one the empty Portmonnaies of the consumer to the middle of the month and the last extensive promotions, which ensured that was a kind of saturation of purchasing quantities consumers.
A significant increase in the slaughter weights and richer offer numbers the amount of pigs is greater than the demand also in Spain . Particularly dramatic is the marketing of piglets. In the absence of sufficient free stable places, the pig industry falters. The export of pork and its by-products after China runs volume satisfactorily, but the significantly lower prices be deplored.
Also in Belgium , pig prices have come under pressure. At a somewhat larger range of weaned pigs, the need for the abattoirs shuttled simultaneously back so that's partly resulted in cancellations of registered numbers in some slaughterhouses. Due to the significant price discounts in Germany, pig prices in Italy are also no longer to keep. Abattoirs have tried here in the past two weeks to press the cost prices.
