Quarterly Update: A New Year without much cheer

Pig market analyst Dr John Strak shared his thoughts on the global pork market here in late October last year. He warned of, “a hard winter ahead” and used words like “depressed” and “gloomy times”. A miserable outlook really. Much as he would wish to start this New Year with some more optimistic words, he cannot. My pessimism last autumn about the state of the global market for pork has been borne out by events and, regretfully, my views about the trends in the next 3-6 months ar