Market Trends

Simulations predict a decline in pig production, increase in pork prices, and a slight decrease in per capita calorie availability in China. African swine fever (ASF) has spread into East...

For pork, a slight increase in pork prices was observed this week attributed to a considerable increase in demand despite the increase in slaughter numbers during the second week of...

The Farm-to-Retail-Price-Spread (FTRPS) is the difference between the farm price and the retail price of food, reflecting charges for processing, shipping, and retailing farm goods (also called the marketing spread)....

The golden age for breeding organisations appears to have started. The Chinese pig industry will leave no stone unturned to get back to business, which was halved due to African...

Since the start of the lockdown, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has measured price changes for “essential” goods that appear in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket. Stats SA is...

If there's one thing Covid-19 has shown us, it's that the world can be shaken without notice. As a result of the country-wide lockdown, there has been an almost immediate...

The Covid-19 pandemic is expected to drive an increased focus on localisation, rather than globalisation, in order to ensure countries are more self-sufficient, says agricultural organisation Agbiz president Francois Strydom. In...