Big savings from small piglets

The month of January has been a good month for piglet producers in Europe, with prices reaching the €50 psychological barrier. What happened? It was only a year and a half ago when piglets were practically free of charge! The answer is not that easy to formulate. First, there was a chronic problem with oversupply as producers had increased the sow herd in response to previous high prices for pork. Then, with the global financial crisis, many producers started going out of business whereas eve