(AMI) The demand expected from producer page are hardly be felt in the current year to slaughter pigs and pork in the wake of the end of the holiday. In some regions, the volume of slaughter pigs in anticipation of rising hog prices is large and urgent, in Belgium and in the Netherlands. The predominant price trends for the new week be unchanged to slightly weaker.
In France the demand is stable after slaughter pigs to lively, because many sales promotions in retail food stimulate the demand for pork. Balanced market conditions are being reported in Spain. A relatively wide range of faces buoyant demand on the part of the abattoirs. A heat wave here ensures growth of slaughter pigs. Submitters of pigs require stable prices, abattoirs, however, insist on lower cost prices, because the revenues dwindle in the meat trade. In Italy, slaughterhouses due to significantly reduced slaughter forced a significant price reduction of almost 10 CT / kg carcass weight. Italian Mäster hoping for a rapid price stabilisation. A light price weakness cannot be excluded in the short term however. There are in Belgium and the Netherlands Umgang. The speculation on higher pork prices and the associated retention of weaned animals caused the opposite.
