Irish pig price stable this week

Pig market report

Sow prices have advanced 4c to 58c-64c/kg deadweight, according to IFA.

IFA said the Irish pig price remained stable at €1.52-1.54/kg so far this week, and welcomed the first sign of positivity in the EU market for some time, a 2c/kg increase in Germany, albeit from the low starting point of about €1.20.

Pig farmers will hope a backlog of factory-ready pigs in the main EU pig-producing countries will continue to recede, and that China will accept the EU case for regionalisation that would allow the return of the vast majority of German pork being exported to China.