Quarterly Update: A hard winter ahead

In his quarterly update, pig market analyst Dr John Strak analyses the global pork market. Unfortunately, ”depressed” is the word that best describes it. My thoughts on the global pork market were last published here in July. At the time, I summed up the situation as “complicated” – and I urged caution by producers. Well, life is even more complicated now (Israel-Hamas) and, in these final months of the year, the world market for pork can be summarised simply as, “depressed”. Ho