Weekly pig prices and slaughter data for Great Britain.
The EU-spec SPP bounced back again, gaining 0.33p to stand at 207.94p/kg, during the week ended August 23, virtually cancelling out last week’s small reverse and maintaining the summer market stability.
This continues the pattern of small fluctuations over the past seven weeks, during which the SPP has remained within a very narrow band of just 0.6p.
The SPP has still gained 2.9p over the past 14 weeks, however, It is now 2.7p above where it started 2025 and 2.3p below where it stood a year ago.
After weeks of relative stability, the EU reference price (Grade S) lost 2.7p to stand at 180.7p/kg during the week ended August 17, reflecting recent price falls, widening the gap to the equivalent UK price to 29p.
Revisions to AHDB’s monthly GB slaughter statistics last week suggested throughputs for the past few weeks have been running well below the same weeks for the past two years.
AHDB’s latest estimated GB slaughterings for the week ended August 23, at 152,243, was 1,000 up on the previous week, 3,700 down on 2024 but 2,000 up on 2023. As always, these estimates are potentially subject to further revision.
Average carcase weights also continued to fluctuate, in sync with the SPP, cancelling out last week’s drop in gaining 0.56kg to stand at 90.17kg in the SPP sample, 0.6kg above year-earlier levels.
London feed wheat futures were quoted by AHDB on August 20 at £169/t for November and £173/t for January, £2 up on last week in both cases.