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December: About the Pork Market in Theses
— supply/demand: Expectations for more active pork trade in the run-up to the winter holidays were largely unfulfilled, market operators stated. Thus, the revival of sales was noted by some operators «in isolation,» while others noted an increased level of competition among both chilled pork suppliers and live pork suppliers. In particular, in December, processors noted a greater supply of pigs for slaughter, in particular from «seasonal» feeders who tried to sell livestock fattened for the holidays, often in heavier than usual slaughter conditions.
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Regional pork price divergence is a new trend
The loss of a weighty portion of operators and a weighty portion of supply could not help but affect the price situation — something the pork industry has faced this year. First of all, the formation of regional pork markets.
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Top 20 industrial pig farms in Ukraine in 2022
Recall that the top twenty key market operators (Fig.1) provided about 60% of the industrial supply and received at least 66% of the number of major sows in the industrial sector at the beginning of the year.
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How did the pig production fare in early 2022?
At the end of 2022 it will be worthwhile to look back at how the industry developed during the year. According to the data shared by the head of the analytical department of the Association of Ukranian Pig Breeders Oleksandra Bondarska at the beginning of the year the industry was significantly dominated by the industrial sector.
