Trade wars and ASF: The global pork market mid-2019

Every quarter, international pig market expert Dr John Strak takes a look into the previous months and analyses what these developments mean for the months to come. For the US and the EU, he expects movements in different directions. I finished my last piece in this column (early April 2019) by saying that, “It looked like the winds of change are blowing through the global pork market.” That was a good call and Figure 1 illustrates the point. The week to week change in global pig prices fir