The pig generates losses of € 18 per animal

Again, the pig will close the year with red numbers. On this occasion, confirming a downward trend for four years, farmers will lose up to 18 euros per animal. Thus has warned it Miguel Padilla, President of coag Lorca, who insisted that many producers can not already stand costs of this magnitude. This negative situation gives rise to a number of consequences, such as the loss of the ownership of cattle. In particular, more than 80% of the indigenous farms are integrated. Therefore, the owners of the farms are no longer the owners of the cattle. According to the spokesman of COAG, year 2011 could give rise to only 10% of the farms remained independent.

Such prospect much of farmers have been forced to sell their farms, but the causes that have led to this situation are essentially two: the price of meat and speculation in the market of cereals. Or put another way, the steady increase in production costs. By way of example, the representative of COAG has complained that kilo of grain cost between 35 and 40 pesetas and that the purchase of soya, which provides nearly 100% of the proteins, dependent on foreign markets. The situation does not improve for other types of livestock such as goats, particularly on production and marketing of milk. In this regard, since COAG have denounced the pressure from a French oligopoly which sells milk of goats and cattle.