Quarterly Update: Global pig prices – recovery or a false dawn?

Pig market analyst Dr John Strak wrote his previous column in April. It it, he cautioned for a false dawn in the pig industry. Caution is still needed. In April I presented my views here, saying, “the global price cycle for the pig and pork industry has made a sharp about turn – apparently initiated by shortages of pigs in Europe – and exhibited positive rates of week-to-week change in March…… It is not impossible that this could be a false dawn…… investors and producers could s