The quantities available are still insufficient for covering the slaughter companies’ good demand. Both Spain and France did well over the past week despite last week’s public holidays and set a new price increase target on Thursday.

With its corrected 5.6 cents, France has recorded the largest price increase compared to last week.

After the latest rise in prices, Germany ranks on its maximum annual value of a corrected 1.876 euros, positioned only very slightly behind France with its corrected 1.881 euros.

Behind the Netherlands, Denmark bears the red light among the five major pig-producing EU countries.

Irish producers have had to settle for unchanged prices for a nine-week period.

As a result of currency fluctuations, the British quotation has gone down slightly.

Trend for the German market: This week, the scarce quantities on offer are still characterising the market situation. According to reports, live pigs will continue to be in demand for the time being. Whether the price increase will be temporary or whether it will proceed continually remains to be seen.

Week	D	NL	DK	B	F	PL	CZ	IT	ESP	AUT	GB	IR
Week 28	1.626	1.566	1.643	1.593	1.708	1.692	1.704	1.848	1.885	1.612	1.923	1.594
Week 29	1.686	1.623	1.643	1.655	1.760	1.744	1.704	1.924	1.892	1.663	1.929	1.594
Week 30	1.746	1.680	1.671	1.717	1.814	1.797	1.728	1.975	1.930	1.714	1.947	1.594
Week 31	1.746	1.690	1.698	1.729	1.819	1.798	1.758	2.025	1.949	1.714	1.933	1.594
Week 32	1.746	1.680	1.698	1.717	1.836	1.712	1.766	2.025	1.955	1.714	1.910	1.594
Week 33	1.776	1.709	1.697	1.742	1.810	1.812	1.778	2.025	1.955	1.745	1.921	1.594
Week 34	1.826	1.756	1.724	1.791	1.825		1.780	2.076	1.955	1.786	1.951	1.594
Week 35	1.876	1.785	1.751	1.840	1.891			2.095	1.990	1.817	1.937	1.594
Prices in Euros (€)

Explanation
¹corrected quotation: The official Quotations of the different countries are corrected, so that each quotation has the same base (conditions).
base: 56 per cent lean meat; farm-gate-price; 79 per cent killing out percentage, without value-added-tax (VAT)