This 12 months we as soon as once more requested our customers about their expectancies for the pig marketplace within the present 12 months, asking them what they suspect the pig value will likely be in 2024. The survey, carried out between February 12 and March 12, concerned 735 individuals from 71 international locations. From the filtered information, the result of 567 responses from 19 markets analyzed are proven within the following graph.

Pig value forecast in 2024: Comparability between 333 customers’ predictions (gathered between February 12 and March 12, 2024) and the real reasonable value in 2022 and 2023. For each and every nation, the variety of responses is proven by way of the orange bar, the place the utmost, minimal, and median values are represented. The real reasonable value in 2022 and 2023 is indicated by way of blue dots. The selection of information analyzed for each and every nation is proven in parentheses.

Forecasts for the Eu Union markets stay very top, as observed within the graph. Even though they all excluding Romania are underneath the typical value of the former 12 months, needless to say those values are nearly equivalent to the 2023 historic data in Germany, Italy, and Romania, or between the 2023 data and the former 2022 data, as when it comes to Spain, France, and Poland. The similar trend is noticed for the UK’s marketplace. Russia, then again, presentations a rather other trend, with document forecasts.
Customers within the Americas be expecting costs to be somewhat upper than within the earlier 12 months. Argentina is the exception with the forecast vary being smartly above that of earlier years because of top inflation. On the subject of Colombia, customers be expecting beef costs to extend a lot lower than in recent times, however sufficient to succeed in an all-time top.
In Asia, maximum customers in China and Vietnam be expecting costs very similar to the ones of 2023, with a bent against sure steadiness because of the improving pig inventories following the devastation led to by way of African swine fever.
We additionally come with data at the African continent, the place top costs also are anticipated for the South African marketplace.
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