Quarterly update: Good fortune for pig producers in 2020

A few wild boar crossing a river in Europe – or one tweet by the US president. Small unforeseen things like these might have a huge impact on global pig and pork trade in 2020. Putting aside the effects of the unexpected, however, the outlook for 2020 looks pretty rosy, writes pig market expert Dr John Strak in his quarterly update. It’s that time of year again, the time when we look back and wonder why we didn’t see what now seems obvious, and we look forward and try to balance hope agai