A pork marketer recommends producers take defensive pricing strategies as supplies overhang the market.
Ross Logan with Commodity Ingredient Hedging tells Brownfield even with 2019’s record pork exports, production growth is outpacing that demand.
“For every one percent of the growth in production, we need to grow about four percent in exports.”
He
says premium is still built into the market because African Swine Fever outbreaks
are affecting more than 80 percent of consumption in the top 10 pork consuming
countries.
“We’re still trading at an above-average margin, some of them even in the 70th percentile—a lot of profitability out there still, maybe not what some people were hoping for with all of this additional demand.”
And,
he says China could build pork infrastructure pretty rapidly which means
the window to supply that country could be limited to just a few years.
“There’s a lot of big investor money chasing the margins out there and while a lot of people initially thought it would take years to rebuild their sow herd and production, the timeline may be much shorter,” he says.
Brownfield industry with Ross Logan during the Michigan Pork Producers Symposium.
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