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How Can Pork Or Chicken Pay When It's Almost Free At The Shop?
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<blockquote data-quote="bitwrx" data-source="post: 7458989" data-attributes="member: 86972"><p>Yes. Food service has shut down, christmas didn't happen etc. This all softens demand.</p><p>Processing capacity has been hit hard by covid in abattoir workforces, but that's getting better.</p><p>Covid in the abattoirs has also shut off exports to China. Covid is a notifiable disease. Chinese have fairly strict phytosanitary (or do I mean political?) requirements around notifiable diseases so some of the processors don't export there for the time being. This affects carcase balance, which depresses the overall price more.</p><p>Brexit affected the cull sow trade over the new year, but this wouldn't have been so bad if....</p><p></p><p>As [USER=12281]@spin cycle[/USER] points out, African swine fever in German wild boar has shut off the Chinese export market to all German pork, so their freezers were already full.</p><p></p><p>It's hard to think of anything else that could've gone wrong at the same time to make it any worse TBH. Apart from the price of grain and protein crops going through the roof, that is. Oh wait, they already have.</p><p></p><p>My point still stands though. The only reason it's available so cheap is because we've produced too much. We weren't to know that 9 months ago when we served the buggers, but we sure as sh!t know it now. But that's business. If I wasn't up for that risk I would've stayed in my salary job.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's ok, by 2030 we'll all be living in mud huts. Or cob and thatch in my part of the world. Look forward to it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite20" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL :ROFLMAO:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bitwrx, post: 7458989, member: 86972"] Yes. Food service has shut down, christmas didn't happen etc. This all softens demand. Processing capacity has been hit hard by covid in abattoir workforces, but that's getting better. Covid in the abattoirs has also shut off exports to China. Covid is a notifiable disease. Chinese have fairly strict phytosanitary (or do I mean political?) requirements around notifiable diseases so some of the processors don't export there for the time being. This affects carcase balance, which depresses the overall price more. Brexit affected the cull sow trade over the new year, but this wouldn't have been so bad if.... As [USER=12281]@spin cycle[/USER] points out, African swine fever in German wild boar has shut off the Chinese export market to all German pork, so their freezers were already full. It's hard to think of anything else that could've gone wrong at the same time to make it any worse TBH. Apart from the price of grain and protein crops going through the roof, that is. Oh wait, they already have. My point still stands though. The only reason it's available so cheap is because we've produced too much. We weren't to know that 9 months ago when we served the buggers, but we sure as sh!t know it now. But that's business. If I wasn't up for that risk I would've stayed in my salary job. It's ok, by 2030 we'll all be living in mud huts. Or cob and thatch in my part of the world. Look forward to it. :ROFLMAO: [/QUOTE]
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