Quarterly Update: A false dawn – price cycle stays negative 

Pig market analyst Dr John Strak wrote in his last column that “the acceleration of the pig price cycle data has slowed almost to 0 and this indicates we are experiencing a weak upturn in global pig prices”. He qualified this by noting that, “the upward phase of the current global pig price cycle is a weak one…. it is possible that the cycle may plateau or reverse in the months ahead”. His conclusion was that it was not clear if the global pig price cycle was starting a recovery or if