EU pig prices: pandemic pressures and low slaughter capacity cause drop in prices

The European pork markets saw a significant drop in pig prices this week, influenced by both the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a lack of slaughter days.
calendar icon 15 April 2020
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Graph showing the current price comparison of live pigs for slaughter in Europe over the past seven days
European pig price comparison by the ISN

1) corrected quotation: The official Quotations of the different countries are corrected, so that each quotation has the same base (conditions).2) These quotations are based on the correction formulas applied since 01.08.2010. base: 57 percent lean-meat-percentage; farm-gate-price; 79 percent killing-out-percentage, without value-added-tax. © ISN

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