Weekly pig prices and slaughter data for Great Britain.
After last week’s welcome 0.75p gain, the EU-spec SPP is back to where it was, losing 0.76p to stand at 177.97p/kg during the week ended July 11.
The fall followed four weeks of relative stability for the price index, during which it gained 0.85p, after a steady decline that had seen it lose more than 19p since the end of 2025. The SPP is nearly 30p below where it stood a year ago, on the back of an imbalance of supply and demand, compounded by low EU prices.
The latest Tribune roundup of EU prices showed pig prices have plummeted again across Europe, led by big falls in German finished pig and sow prices, with big reductions also in Belgium and the Netherlands and smaller falls elsewhere, and only France bucking the trend.
Before these latest price reversals, the grade S EU reference price lost 0.5p to stand at 139.49p/kg during the week ended July 5, increasing the gap to equivalent UK price to 45p, highlighting the continuing pressure on UK prices.
AHDB’s estimated GB clean pig slaughterings, at 161,589 head during the week ended July 11, were 2,000 head down on the week and 6,500 head above 2025 figures.
Average carcase weights fell back again, losing 0.37kg to stand at at 90.55kg in the the SPP sample. With the backlog now under control, carcase weights are now 5kg below the recent April peak and just 0.5kg above year-earlier levels.
The extreme hot weather of recent weeks will have impacted productivity in the short-term and longer-term, with some heavy losses reported on farms during first heatwave, alongside what are likely to be slower growth rates.
London feed wheat futures were quoted by AHDB on July 15 at £195/t for November, £15 up on last week, and £192/t for January, £8 up on last week.