Europe: fast-moving collapse of pig prices

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For the last two weeks pig prices on the EU market speed up its decreasing. This is told in the European Commission report. During the last week of September, the price...

For the last two weeks pig prices on the EU market speed up its decreasing. This is told in the European Commission report.

During the last week of September, the price of pigs S and E classes has decreased by 4%. So that, as of September, 22 the carcass hundredweight was sold at 158.04 and 152.29 euros respectively. Pigs of R class getting cheaper a bit slower, but for the last month prices have decreased by 8 euro/hundredweight (-4%).

Note that the prices of pigs E and S classes in the EU show a downward trend since mid-summer. However, the downward trends in prices for these categories of pigs in August and early September were less rapid.

Dynamics of pig prices in the EU according to their classes, euro per 100 kg

Source: Analytical Department of the Association of Pig Producers of Ukraine according to European Comisson Data

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