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December, 2017
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Dear readers,
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we are happy present you the 2nd edition of our Pig Newsletter with the latest developments of outputs, projects and people. As announced agri benchmark Pig published the second Pig Report in December 2017. This issue focuses on German pork production, including animal welfare related initiatives and an analysis of the German trade with pork meat.
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| We also send you season’s greetings and wish you a merry Christmas and an excellent start into a peaceful, healthy and success-ful year 2018.
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Mandes Verhaagh
Project manager of the agri benchmark Pig Network
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Pig Report 2017 - Now Available
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| Since the German agri benchmark Pig Network expanded during the last year significally, the Pig Report 2017 puts focus on German pork production, animal welfare and trade of pork meat in Germany. Therefore the first version of the report is in German.
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| You can scroll through the complete report for free! Just click on the picture below.
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ExTraPIG – Data Selection & Analysis Tool
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| Our master student Sophia Krone has passed her degree and we congratulate her on this occasion. Her thesis „Development of a concept for the analysis of product-specific external trade in pigmeat and offal based on the example of Germany“ shows the need to take a closer look at external trade. The cutting of the carcass into different cuts means that many different products are traded globally. It is also an explanation for the fact that – like Germany – there is a number of countries which import and export pig meat at the same time, but in terms of different cuts.
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And finally, comparable products are traded in completely different quantities and prices with different trading partners.
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| Within the scope of this work, the analysis tool ExTraPIG was developed with which bilateral trade flows on different aggregation levels can be conveniently evaluated and graphically displayed. A selection of these graphs is presented in the Pig Report 2017 using the example of German foreign trade in pig meat and offal as an example.
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Pig Conference 2017
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| The Pig Conference 2017 was jointly run by the two networks agri benchmark Pig und InterPig in Wageningen. Based on different methodological approaches both data set came to quite similar results regarding up-to-date trends in pork production and market developments.
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| A short overview of results you find here:
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End of the dry spell: situation of the pig sector looks brighter
(Press release)
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Schwein gehabt: Es geht wieder aufwärts
(Pressemitteilung)
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Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and agri benchmark to intensify collaboration
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| The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and the Thünen Institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Braunschweig to strengthen their ties. One key area in which collaboration will be intensified is the project agri benchmark.
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| As one milestone in developing this partnership the agri benchmark Conferences will take place in Beijing, China: 2018 Cash Crop Conference, 2019 Beef and Sheep Conference, 2019 Pig Conference.
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| These results were achieved during Mandes Verhaagh's visit to Beijing. In addition to the planning of the conferences, it was about common work goals and projects as well as a presentation at the CIAR Outlook conference. There, the new results from the international comparison of our agri benchmark data were presented and included in an international comparison of the competitiveness of pig production.
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