NL: Cost price of pigs at record levels
The cost price of pork has risen to €1.75 per kilo – the highest since 1993, according to Dutch newspaper Agrarisch Dagblad .
In addition, national piglet price index revealed that the cost price of a piglet now amounts to €53,26 – the highest in 10 years.
The above figures were calculated by the Animal Sciences Group (Wageningen University) and are based on technical and economic results results of 2006 – taking the current high feed prices into account. The index provides a recommended price and is calculated on a proportional distribution of profit and loss between breeder and fattener.
High feed prices are certainly leaving their mark on the development of cost prices.
A multiplier pays €580.64 per sow, €101.33 more than in July last year. Through higher feed prices, the interest to be paid rises too.
A pig producer pays more for the piglet and pumps €16.15 more into the feed of the animal. As a result, the cost price rises around 12% to €157.49 for delivered pigs.
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