Livestock Pork Prices Depressed as Market Still in Oversupply Market survey data from the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs (MARA) and other government agencies show the average live hog price fell by 10 percent to start January. Supplies of pork meat have continued to remain robust, while demand is showing some signs of life, despite the rapid spread of coronavirus variants. Output at large-scale slaughterhouses rose by almost 8 percent during the first week of the new year. Adding to the excess supply of domestic pork meat has been releases of frozen pork from state reserves in the past couple of weeks in several provinces, including Hubei, Tianjin, and Jiangxi, among others. While these factors have contributed to...
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