date:May 15, 2012
, creating volume and price risks all along the supply chain.
March price levels were 4.3% lower than in December 2011, and 14.3% lower then the latest peak in July 2011, a drop attributed to the recovery in Chinese hog production and the consequent drop in imports from Asia.
The global pork market is returning to a more normal situation now that the disease-related Asian import surge is fading. This is mainly impacting the USA, where the buoyant export growth experienced in 2011 has stopped,