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Thursday, September 27, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Buying interest remains poor (week ended Sep 26, 2012)
Piglet market showed little improvement amid light trade. Smaller hog producers continued to withhold procurements while feed costs stayed high despite sliding soymeal prices. Demand for piglet is expected to stay weak as hog prices will sl ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: High feed costs limit demand (week ended Sep 19, 2012)
Piglet demand remained weak while prices consolidated within a narrow range during the period in review. Even as hog prices have increased for the seventh consecutive week, the surge in feed costs due to soymeal rally has dampened the confi ...
Friday, September 14, 2012
Hamlet Protein introduces soy-yeast supplement for piglets
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Prices stabilise from recent falls (week ended Sep 12, 2012)
Piglet price falls stabilised in most regions over the week. However, even though hog markets stood firm, farms were cautious in building inventories as costs of feed ingredients trended higher of late. High feed costs, uncertain outlook of ...
Monday, September 10, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Sharp price falls in north China (week ended Sep 6, 2012)
Soaring soymeal prices dampened the inventory building interest of smaller hog farms. Price falls of piglet were particularly sharp in north China due to slack demand. Piglet prices are expected to remain weak with supplies ample while dema ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Piglet demand stays soft despite hog prices (week ended Aug 29, 2012)
Even though hog prices increased 5% over the past three weeks, hog producers were still hesitant about expanding inventories. As small farms which do not produce own piglets were still incurring losses, most of them chose to keep pig pens e ...
Thursday, August 23, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Uncertain hog market outlook decimates piglet sales (week ended Aug 22, 2012)
Although hog prices rose for the second consecutive week, hog producers remained prudent as the outlook of the market remained uncertain. Hence, piglet demand stayed soft while most small farmers withheld purchases. High feed costs and unce ...
Friday, August 17, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Cautious inventory building underpins prices (week ended Aug 15, 2012)
Smaller hog producers who suffered losses continued to stand on the side line. Nonetheless, piglet demand improved as larger farms started to build inventories in preparation for the traditionally strong demand during winter. Piglet prices ...
Thursday, August 9, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Rising feed costs curtail demand (week ended Aug 8, 2012)
Several hog producers limited piglet procurements while protein meal ingredients soared prominently of late, squeezing profits together with sliding hog prices. Large producers who were more confident to build inventories continued to supre ...
Thursday, August 2, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Demand slack; prices consolidate lower (week ended Aug 1, 2012)
Piglet prices consolidated lower following the recent week's significant fall. Accumulatively, piglet prices have reduced by 2%-11% during July. Compared with the same week in 2011, prices have plunged 10%-20%, except for Sichuan which regi ...
Thursday, July 26, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Price dips as festive inventory building ends (week ended Jul 25, 2012)
Demand waned considerably as the inventory building in preparation for Mid-autumn Festival and pre-October holidays ended. This, together with falling hog prices on slack demand, dragged piglet prices down prominently in several regions. Pi ...
Thursday, July 19, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Market in tug of war (week ended Jul 18, 2012)
Large integrators were more confident to expand inventories in view of strengthening demand towards late October amid colder climates. Smaller farms that were suffering losses continued to limit procurements.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
China Piglet Weekly: Farms limit piglet procurement (week ended Jul 11, 2012)
Hog farmers remained cautious in expanding inventories, resulting in flat piglet prices. Several small commercial farms were downsizing their inventories while some backyard farms kept pig pens empty to reduce losses.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Germany progressing towards non-castration policy for piglets
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Gut development is essential for weaning piglets
For a long time, the gut has been described as a simple organ but the gut is in fact a sensory organ (Furness et al.; 1999). The gut is able to perceive its internal environment and adapt to it autonomously without any interaction with the ...

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