Pig trading market is still relatively light

The price of live pigs in 18 provinces fell. The area with the largest decline was Shanxi Province, which was down by 1.46% from the closing price on the 30th. Eleven provinces rebounded slightly. The largest increase was in Xinjiang, which was 9.24% higher than yesterday's closing price.

This week, the live pig market finally saw a record of storage. The slaughter companies in the northeastern market took the lead in slightly raising the purchase price of live pigs. This time, a total of 65,000 tons of storage were collected, of which the northeast, Beijing and Tianjin, and Hebei provinces accounted for 18.9% of the frozen storage. Accounting for 20%, it can be seen that the Northeast, North China and East China regions are the focus of this storage. However, it is expected that this collection will hardly cause a substantial increase in the price of pigs, and it will only play a temporary supportive role in the downtrend market. It is expected that this time the reserve can rise by 0.3-0.5 yuan/kg. At present, farmers have reported that the number of pig raisers who speed up the bargain-hunting and bar-shopper reluctant sellers has increased, and the gambling market has a strong mood. Most of them think that 5 yuan is the bottom, and prices will show a recoverable rise thereafter. Even some pig farms have raised piglets and have been betting for the next half year. At present, piglets are still rising, and even worse, they are buying back-to-back sows. We believe that the effect of starting and purchasing for the first time will be very weak, and hog prices may still remain weak in the short term.

According to the Sichuan pig monitoring and early-warning system monitoring, in the fourth week of March 2014, pig feed prices at the monitoring sites in our province continued to fall, and the pig food and feed ratio were close to the lowest point of the year in mid-May last year. The retail retail prices of fattening pigs, piglets, gilts and pork dropped by RMB 0.14/kg, RMB 0.15/kg, RMB 15.00/head and RMB 0.50/kg, respectively; corn and soybean meal dropped slightly by RMB 0.01/kg and RMB 0.03/kg respectively. The mix of wheat bran and finishing pigs was unchanged from last week; the pig-to-grain ratio and the pig feed ratio were 4.85 to 1 and 3.44 to 1, respectively, with a decrease of 0.04 points each.

In late March, the average domestic pig slaughter price was mostly concentrated between 10.20 and 11.80 yuan/kg, and pig prices continued to decline in the Northeast China, followed by North China. At present, the trading conditions in the pig market are still relatively light, the slaughterhouses have insufficient purchasing power, the situation of oversupply is still continuing, and the market continues to operate weakly. According to Xiao Bian reports, the first batch of bidding for the storage and storage of frozen pork in the Central Reserve this year will start soon, with a planned volume of 65,000 tons. This news is true, or will enhance the confidence of farmers. Farmers in all localities should pay attention to changes in the temperature of cold and heat before and after the Ching Ming Festival, strengthen the feeding and management of pigs, pay attention to disease prevention and control, and adjust the structure of the pigs.