Weekly pig prices and slaughter data for Great Britain.
The EU-spec SPP has fallen for the third week in a row, losing 0.66p to stand at 206.59p/kg, during the week ended September 13.
This is the price index’s biggest weekly drop since the first week of February and means it has lost 1.35p over the past three weeks, following two months of minimal movement.
The SPP is now just over 1p above where it started 2025 and 2.7p below where it stood a year ago.
Last week saw significant price falls in most major pig producing EU countries, although the German price stood on. The headline gap between UK and EU prices continues to grow, even before these latest reductions.
The EU reference price (Grade S) lost a further 0.5p to stand at 177.8p/kg during the week ended September 7, widening the gap to the equivalent UK price to 31.5p.
August UK clean pig slaughterings were down 5.4% year on year at 825,000 head, while pigmeat production was 5.6% lower at 76,000 tonnes, according to Defra’s latest update. This follows a 3% year-on-year fall in pigmeat production in July.
AHDB’s latest estimated GB slaughterings for the week ended September 13, at 169,576, were 8,000 up on the previous week, 1,000 up on 2024 and 9,000 up on 2023. As always, these estimates are potentially subject to further revision.
Average carcase weights gained 0.14kg to stand at 90.3kg in the SPP sample, the second successive weekly increase, just 0.3kg below year-earlier levels.
London feed wheat futures were quoted by AHDB on September 17 at £168/t for November and £171/t for January, £2 up on last week in both cases.