Dear reader,

As expected, the German farmers last week did -8 cents, on the other hand, this week, they kept firm with no further reduction by doing zero

The -8 was simply to give something back to the slaughterhouses as from the beginning of the year the farming industry is the only one gaining

Animal welfare and environmental conditions remain to be the “Hot Topic” in both Germany and the Netherlands. The Dutch parliament conducted this year a national meat survey to evaluate the meat consumption habits of the Dutch people, more than two thousand Dutch citizens were questioned about their perception of the meat industry. 69% of them confirmed that the country needs a strong meat sector as much of the Dutch population consumes meat. Only 5% responded that they do not eat meat. And yet again with this high percentage of meat consumption in Netherlands, the politician still wish to shrink the Hog population.

Brazil, in the past when we said Brazil first thing that came to our minds are the Football stars, we spoke about Romario, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Neymar and many more, now I can say that the next star will be the Brazilian pork meat industry, I mean the numbers are simply “wow” as only from Santa Catarina region, 55.3% of the volume and 57% of the revenue are the pork meat exports from January until September 2024.
Most of the main destinations recorded an increase in exports this year compared to the same period in 2023, with the Philippines (up 52.1% in volume and 38.9% in revenue), Japan (125.2% and 120.2%), and Mexico (83.1% and 70.2%) standing out. Two other important buyers, however, saw negative variations in the period: China (-39.2% in volume and -49.0% in revenue) and Chile (-13.2% and -17.3%).
The Philippines consolidated its position as the main pork buyer from Santa Catarina this year, accounting for 24.3% of the revenue generated, while China, in second place, accounted for 18.7%, and Japan 17.8%.
Finally EU has finalized its decision about the Chinese E.V. taxation which you will read more in the below weekly pig industry review.

Highlights

EU decides to impose final five-year
anti-subsidy duties on Chinese electric vehicles

According to CCTV News, on October 29th local time, the European Commission announced that it had ended its anti-subsidy investigation and decided to impose a final anti-subsidy tax on electric vehicles (BEVs) imported from China for a period of five years
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Global swine production: First USDA
estimates for 2025

Decreased production and apparent consumption are expected, as well as greater dynamism in the international pork trade.
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Belgium: 175 pig farms have closed as part of buy-out scheme

So far, 175 pig farms have been bought out with the voluntary exit scheme created by the Flemish government.
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Pig Prices

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