Google
Pinoyagribusiness
March 28, 2024, 06:44:33 PM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
affordable vet products
News: A sow will farrow in approximately 114 days.
 
  Home   Forum   Help Search Login Register  
Pages: 1 ... 11 12 [13]
  Print  
Author Topic: European Hog News:  (Read 15800 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Mustang Sally Farm
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1195


View Profile
« Reply #180 on: June 07, 2012, 11:25:38 PM »


European Pork Exports to China Rise in Q1 of 2012
07 June 2012


EU - In spite of several difficulties faced by the EU, pork exports to China rose 111 per cent in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the same period last year.

According to BPEX's latest Export Bulletin, EU exports rose 9 per cent in total in the first quarter of 2012.
 
According to a recent report, the French poultry and pig meat industries appear to have been asleep since 2002 and have lost their competitive edge. The main factor obstructing development in these sectors is the environmental challenge.
 
In Germany, the market situation ranges from a surplus in pig supplies in some areas to shortage of pigs in other regions. Domestic pig meat trade has taken speed and particularly fillets and topsides are in high demand, resulting in regional shortages. It is expected that Russia might resume imports of German fat and bacon articles.
 
In Switzerland, pork consumption dropped 1.7 per cent last year to 24.9 kg per person. Pork remains the main meat being consumed with close to 50 per cent of total meat consumption. Swiss meat board, Proviande, has been successful in leading development of exports of premium processed pork products such as traditional salamis and dried meats.
 
Logged
Mustang Sally Farm
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1195


View Profile
« Reply #181 on: June 25, 2012, 08:08:44 AM »


British Pig Meat Goes to China
22 June 2012

 

UK - The first shipment of British pig meat ihas been sent to mainland China from a cold store in the UK.
 
The market that is the largest in the world for pork was opened up following years of negotiations.
 
The shipment was loaded up on Tuesday and went from the Tulip cold store at Brierley Hill in teh West Midlands.
 
Sales and export manager Martin Sauer said: "This is an important step not only for Tulip but also for the British pig industry.
 
"The Chinese market is huge -the biggest in the world - and there will be scope to expand it in years to come."
 
BPEX chairman Stewart Houston, who was involved in the negotiations to open the market, said: "It is very important to us. It is a market that could easily be worth £50 million a year in the not too far distant future."
Logged
Mustang Sally Farm
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1195


View Profile
« Reply #182 on: July 03, 2012, 12:58:49 AM »


Will Integrated Supply Chain Bring Home the Bacon?
28 June 2012



 
ANALYSIS - A new report into the British pig meat industry calls for an integrated pig meat supply chain, writes Chris Harris.

The report says that at present pig producers and processors struggle to sell their products at a profit and utilise their production capacity.
 
This discourages productive investment and entrenches the UK pig industry's disadvantage compared to foreign competitors, the report says.
 
It also encourages a worsening of pay and conditions for the workforce, and undermines job security.
 
The report Bringing Home the Bacon from researchers from the University of Manchester Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change says the system is economically unnecessary because there is a better way, which delivers on broader economic and social objectives.

The more integrated and consolidated national models of the Danish and Dutch pig industry or the profitable in-house UK processing operations of Morrisons represent the alternative, which uses a higher proportion of British meat compared to the other major supermarkets.

The Morrisons model aligns the interests of firm, supply chain and society. Morrisons runs its vertically integrated processing plants at full capacity and proves the benefits of plant loading with demand stabilised. The firm increases margins, reduces transaction costs and controls quality. Society gains through reduced import dependence, stable employment and the capacity to address animal welfare and climate change.
 
The big three supermarkets cannot choose a better way as long as they are locked into their present business model through the demands of the stock market and their own mentality and practices. Therefore, much depends on whether government can and will play a constructive role in persuading firms to change their business models.
 
The report suggests that there should be tax incentives from the government to form integrated supply chains.
 
And it calls for a national debate about whether large national supermarket chains are necessary and specifically about what would be lost and gained if Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s were split up into regional chains (e.g. Tesco North and Tesco South or Sainsbury East and West).
 
The research concludes that the government should move beyond its current ‘code of good practice and adjudicator’ model for regulating retailer-supplier relations.
 
It recommends that the Grocery Code Adjudicator regulator should secure better practice by reserve powers to enforce model contracts and minimum contract lengths, as well as discouraging, through strong punitive and investigative powers, variations in terms of supply without retailers providing notice and compensation.
 
It has also called for a year long moratorium on price cut promotions.
 
However, the researchers appear to bring their whole argument down to a cash and profit basis and overlook other inherent motivation for producing pigs.
 
However, many pig producers might not wish to tie themselves lock, stock and barrel to a regime where they are beholden to one outlet. Many prefer the flexibility of the market and also do not wish to become involved in the chain after the farm although many will also welcome and benefit from a relationship with both processors and retailers.
 
Retailers and processors are also likely to baulk at any suggestion of government intervention to control prices.
 
Producers will also only invest their money. time and effort into an enterprose if they can see they are going to get a good reward, so any partnership or relationship will have to be openly beneficial to all parties.

The report believes that with full backing an integrated chain will improve profits, welfare and conditions, but many producers and processors will have to be persuaded.
 
Chris Harris, Editor-in-Chief
Logged
Mustang Sally Farm
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1195


View Profile
« Reply #183 on: July 15, 2012, 05:13:04 AM »


Pig Farmers Face an Empty Trough
13 July 2012

 

UK - Feed costs have again spiked due to global weather patterns and pig producers are facing large losses as the price they are paid is well below the cost of production.

Latest figures show it costs 170p per kg to raise a pig, but at present producers are being paid just 150p per kg – an unsustainable position.
 
These figures do not take full account of recent rises in feed prices and the cost of production is set to rise even further in the coming weeks.
 
Global weather conditions have been the major driver of the price rises, which have also affected the other main component of pig feed – soya, according to a BPEX report and the effects are being felt across Europe.
 
The report has been produced by AHDB Market Intelligence and senior analyst Stephen Howarth, the author, said: “Based on the July cost of production estimate, this means that producers are losing an average of 23p per kg, equivalent to a loss of about £18 per pig.
 
“In recent months, feed costs have risen faster than the DAPP, increasing the losses experienced by producers.
 
“Producers have now been in a loss-making position for 22 consecutive months, dating back to October 2010. Cumulative losses during this period are now approaching £200 million.”
 
The full report is available to read and download here.

or view the video with Stuart Bosworth, Farmers Weekly Pig Farmer of the Year 2011, talking about the rising costs of pig feed and how this is affecting the industry. Click here to view it.
 
Logged
Mustang Sally Farm
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1195


View Profile
« Reply #184 on: July 29, 2012, 12:16:36 AM »


Spain and EU Hog Markets
26 July 2012

 

EU - Spain's pig price continue being the Europa highest 1,38 €/ live pig Kg (0,77 USA $/ live pig pound) and same price during the last week of June, in spite of an insufficient offer the price of the pork does not rise, writes Javier Santamartina, Spain, Italy and Portugal Genesus Representative.

This explains partly to the rest of countries of Europa's center. This month there have been imported alive pigs from France and carcasses from Germany. This a rare event in this market. Spain’s export carcass, cuts to Germany and pigs to France is not significant.
 



Genesus Global Market Report
Prices for the week of July 16, 2012
 


Country

Domestic price
(own currency)

US dollars
(Liveweight a lb)
 


USA (Iowa-Minnesota)

93.50¢ USD/lb carcass

69.19¢
 


Canada (Ontario)

1.75¢ CAD/kg carcass

62.63¢
 


Mexico (DF)

22.68 MXN/kg liveweight

75.90¢
 


Brazil (South Region)

1.94 BRL/kg liveweight

43.19¢
 


Russia

95 RUB/kg liveweight

$1.31
 


China

13.35 RMB/kg liveweight

94.82¢
 


Spain

1.38 EUR/kg liveweight

75.86¢
 

There are reasons for an increase of price, the offer is scanty and does not seem to have solution, in the short term, to get it any short but of having taken place strong imports that would concern the domestic market. Therefore it seems that it will be kept stable without rising prices but keeping it stable and strong anyways. The summer heat helps pork producers to support this situation.
 
The pork markets plow depressed especially Spain and Portugal Market. There are lot concurrences between packing plants with very low margins. This situation inhibits the raises.
 
A short review of rest of main countries of Europe in pig productions:

France: Average price on farm 1,252 €/Kg hog live (0,70 $/ live pig pound) equivalent 1,437 €/kg Carcass (0,80 USA $ /pound carcass).
 
For the next months the offer with 10 per cent less of kill animals every week of this year compared to last year, and this trend probably will increase the price.
 
Denmark: Average Price 11,30 DKK (1,52€/Kg carcass) (0,85 $/ live / pound).

The prices and sales of hams and cuts from Denmark continue stable and continue fluid on international markets like Russia and China. Slaughter is down 7 per cent less compared at the same period of last year.
 
Germany: Average Price 1,27 €/kg live (0,71 USA$/ live pig pound).

Packing plans are reducing slaughter, specially the packing plans focus to export. Starting holidays period in the main producer region which normally reduces the slaughter numbers producing an expected reduction in prices for the coming weeks.
 
There is new data about the numbers of pigs in Germany. The official inventory shows 1 million more pigs this year versus previous year. There is a lot of debate about the recently release numbers by the government agency. Some experts say that data are not full comparable and talk that probably there are the same number of pigs and there is not technical reason for increasing it. Over the second half of the year the decrease of number slaughter pigs will be compensate bypiglets imported from Netherland and Denmark during the first six months of the year. The number of sows continue to getting shorter -1.34 per cent less sows (around 30.000 head less). This has been compensate with increasing in productivity (piglets/sow /year) around 2 per cent.
 
Italy: Average price 1,35 €/kg (160 kg).

Not strong demand of pork in the Italian market over the last month. Steady prices.
 
It is important to compare price between countries that the price received by producers is official price less discount in Spain (average -0,04) and in the rest of countries receive price plus premium (+0.05 depending of country).
 
Other important things for the future is the agreement of Codex Alimentarius (Food Oficial Agency ) to limit of raptomicine residues in pork in 10 micrograms per kilogram of pork and 40 micrograms in liver/kg. Raptomicine is used in finishing pigs to increase growth and to keep lean carcasses. This limit probably must be not accepted in other parts of the world and could get difficult to export pork.
 
Also the Spain crops are not doing any good and this situation added to high price of grains and specially soya. Barley (216 €/ton) and Soya (420 €/ton).
 
Summary
 
Summer will be stable in Europe with Spain leading.
Logged
Mustang Sally Farm
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1195


View Profile
« Reply #185 on: August 03, 2012, 08:49:27 AM »


Fresh Pork Price to Rise
02 August 2012

MALTA - The price of fresh Maltese pork will go up from Monday due to the global increase in the cost of animal feed, the Pig Breeders’ Cooperative Society Limited said on Wednesday, 1 August.

>The increase will be of 20c per kilo on the price of whole pig carcasses sold by the cooperative, TimesofMalta.com.
 
It blamed price volatility in international markets for cereals and other ingredients, exacerbated by poor weather in cereal and soya producing countries.
 
The cooperative did not rule out further increases, with indications being that cereal prices will continue to rise.
 
Logged
Mustang Sally Farm
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1195


View Profile
« Reply #186 on: August 03, 2012, 08:51:44 AM »


Shoppers Urged to Help Save Britain’s Favourite Food
02 August 2012



 
UK - Bacon is Britain's favourite food, according to the Top 100 Foods Index — but it is under threat. 1.5m rashers of British bacon a week look likely to disappear from supermarket shelves. Also in danger of disappearing are 2.3m sausages a week, another high-scoring favourite in the Top 100 Foods Index.

The culprit is poor crop growing weather around the world, making pig feed too expensive for British farmers to afford. In a bid to save the situation, British pig farmers, who are recognised as world leaders in higher welfare pig farming, are asking shoppers to make a special effort to support them over the exceptional few months ahead.
 
"If supermarkets see a surge in demand for British product, they may be persuaded to pay our farmers the few extra pennies a kilo more they need to cover their soaring feed bills,” said National Pig Association general manager Dr Zoe Davies. "So we are asking shoppers, who have always been incredibly loyal in the past, to please be extra careful to look for the British Red Tractor logo on bacon, sausages, and pork."
 
The National Pig Association acknowledges that empty spaces on supermarket shelves could be filled with imported bacon and sausages, but these would not be produced to British welfare standards. In any case European pork products will soon be in shorter supply too, as the European Commission expects European pig production to shrink next year.
 
The problem for British pig farmers is that the cost of pig feed ingredients such as wheat and soya has increased over 25 percent in recent weeks as a result of poor crop-growing conditions, particularly in the United States.
 
At the same time, intense high street rivalry is making supermarkets reluctant to pay farmers more to cover their extra costs of production. In a survey just completed by the National Pig Association, pig farmers representing ten percent of Britain's weekly pig production say if they don't see a fair price between now and Christmas they will have no option but to stop production — because they cannot afford to feed their animals.
 
In addition to the loss of 1.5m British bacon rashers and 2.3m British sausages a week, this will mean...
 •1.5m fewer British sausage rolls
 •250,000 fewer British pork pies
 •300,000 fewer British pork chops
 •63,000 fewer British rolled shoulder joints
 •And 31,000 fewer British leg roasts.
 
Over the next few weeks, British pig farmers need to persuade all actors in the pork supply chain to work together towards a producer price that reflects the recent rises in feed prices.
 
Logged
Pages: 1 ... 11 12 [13]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

< >

Privacy Policy
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.3 | SMF © 2006-2008, Simple Machines LLC
TinyPortal v0.9.8 © Bloc
Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!