Weekly pig prices and slaughter data for Great Britain.
The EU-spec SPP has stablised, after losing 2.32p last week, gaining 0.1p to stand at 177.98p/kg during the week ended June 13.
The small gain follows a sequence of losses followed by smaller gains over the past six weeks, during which the SPP has lost more than 2p. The price index is just over 29p 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 shows drops of 10 eurocents in both the German finished pig price (VEZG) and the sow price, accompanied by big falls in Belgium and the Netherlands. There is little change elsewhere.
Before these latest cuts came into effect, the grade S EU reference price inched up to 142.89p/kg during the week ended June 7. With the equivalent UK price falling, the gap between EU and UK references narrowed slightly to just over 41p.
Somewhat surprisingly, given the year-on-year increase seen in the first four months of the year shown in the Defra figures and the trends shown in AHDB’s May estimated GB slaughterings, the latest Defra figures show May UK clean pig slaughterings were down 1.7% on May 2025 at 842,000 head. Pigmeat production, at 80,000 tonnes, was 0.3% higher than in May 2025, on the back of higher carcase weights.
AHDB’s estimated GB clean pig slaughterings stood at 166,417 head during the week ended June 6, 4,000 down on the previous week but 5,000 head above year-earlier levels. These figures are always subject to revision.
Having fallen eight successive weeks, from just below 95kg to 91.81kg, average carcase weights inched up by 0.23kg to 92.04 during the week ended June 13, still 3.5kg below the recent April peak and now just 1.6g above year-earlier levels.
London feed wheat futures were quoted by AHDB on June 17 at £173/t for July, £3 down on last week, and £179/t for November, £2 lower.