Mercedes Vega

It’s the last month of 2021 and Mercolleida price in Spain is expected to stay at 1.020 € / kg, as established 4 weeks ago, for the rest of the year. In 2020 production cost averaged 1.08 €/kg with a market hog selling p…

2021 is the first year when we see summer prices going down week by week. In the last report, eight weeks ago, Spain was at 1.55 €/kg while Germany was 1.22 €/kg live weight. Today we see a price of 1.271 €/kg, in Spain …

Until now in Europe the market was divided -there were those who could export to China - Spain, and those who could not - Germany. This has made the price depending on whether you were in one area or another.

The Spanish market started 2021 with a high level of activity but in balance. After six months of falling prices, these last four weeks the price has been going up to €1.178/kg (65.34¢ US/lb.) live. We have had an unusua…

We have reached the end of the year, when it started, no one could comprehend such an atypical, complicated, and uncertain year into their heads. We started 2020 with unusual high values compared to start of 2019 that we…

After eight weeks of same price, Spain is still at 1.3 € per kg live weight, the lowest value of the last five years, except for 2018. As we can see in the table below the average price until this week is much higher tha…

We are coming out of the health alert trying to get back to normal, but we are far now from what we understood as "normal life" a year ago. The price of pork has been falling since the state of alarm was declared until f…

In my last report eight weeks ago, we were one week into the state of health alert in Spain, today we are still there, but little by little easing the restrictions and trying to go back into making "a normal life." The s…

We are in a full crisis of COVID-19 in Spain, in Europe, and in the world. The ever-changing situation by the second makes it difficult, if not impossible, to see what is going to happen next.

The 2019 Pork Spanish market had closed with values not seen in the last six years.

The European pig market is experiencing an unusual situation at the end of 2019.

The Spanish market is in a totally unusual situation at this time of year.

We are in the middle of August and we have the highest market price in the last five years.

With the price at € 1,451 / kg live weight, we find that we have to go back until 2014 to find a higher value, € 1.48 / kg.

It was difficult to foresee what was going to happen with the prices, and in fact it has been. How could it be otherwise, when China coughs, the EU catches a cold. At this moment in Spain, and in general in the EU, we ar…