Overview of This Week’s Pig Industry News
ANALYSIS – A new report from FAO forecasts that global meat production will expand by almost two per cent in 2012, writes senior editor, Jackie Linden, with pig meat output expected to increase by three per cent.Annual growth in the sector in Chile has averaged nearly seven per cent. In the volatile pig cycles in China, the price of pork is dropping to the point where producers are making losses again. EU pig numbers have been revised for last year and now suggest a decline of 1.7 per cent in the December 2011 compared to the previous year.