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High Hog Numbers and Uncertain Pork Demand Fuel Volatility
Tyler Fulton - HAMS Marketing Services

Farmscape for July 9, 2019

HAMS Marketing Services says unprecedented growth in U.S. hog production combined with continuing uncertainty over the impact of African Swine Fever on export demand for pork are resulting in continued extreme volatility in North American hog markets.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report, released June 27th, showed an eight percent year over year increase in slaughter hog numbers, easily the largest since 1999.
Tyler Fulton, the Director of Risk Management with HAMS Marketing Services, says as large as the hog numbers have been and as burdensome as the pork inventory has grown this took us to another level, further increasing pressure in both the cash and futures markets.

Clip-Tyler Fulton-HAMS Marketing Services:
We're seeing a continuation of unprecedented volatility.
The market is really struggling with trying to reconcile the near term  heavy supplies and abundant production levels against the possibility of exceptional demand, in particular in the export markets as a result of the African Swine Fever situation in Asia.
Those two are at odds with each other.
I mention possible because we haven't seen any tangible moves in the export market that would allow us to really expect some major increases in sales which is what we would need to see in order to clear some of the surprisingly huge supplies of pork in North America.

Fulton says there is an expectation that we'll start to see more pork moving into China but the time line is extremely gray and there are constraints, such as the trade disruption between China and the United States.
However, he notes, ASF continues to spread throughout southeast Asia so we're not necessarily dependent on China and, if European suppliers focus on China, that may open up other destinations.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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