Quarterly Update: Global pig market is “complicated”

In his quarterly update, pig market analyst Dr John Strak describes the contrary trends in North America, China and Europe. Everyone seems to be out of step with everyone else – but are they? The last words in my previous column were to urge producers to be cautious. I predicted then that a turning point (a move into the positive phase of the price cycle) would not occur before midsummer this year. We live in a world of rapid change and big events, and that makes forecasting even more diffi