Livestock China’s Pork Price and Poultry Price Ease on Rising Supply According to the provincial bureaus for agricultural and rural affairs in Sichuan and Hebei province, sow inventories climbed to 3.1 million head and 1.6 million head in June, respectively. Based on official projections from China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), the national live pig inventory grew by an estimated 30 million head in June to a total of 340 million head. Similarly, the piglet supply rose for the fifth consecutive month. To limit the run-up in live pig and pork prices over the past six weeks, China’s Merchandise Reserve Management Center announced that it will put up 10,000 MT of frozen reserved pork tomorrow. That will...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.