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The first half of 2025 is heading toward a positive end for Brazilian pig farming. The sector operated with satisfactory margins and a good level of profitability. As shown in the attached graph, the average price of live pigs in the Center-South of Brazil remained stable throughout the semester, with moderate variations, but above the values

Pork consumption in Argentina has grown steadily over the past 20 years, while producers warn about inequalities in the face of imports from Brazil.

Pork sector consultant Juan Luis Uccelli developed a simple chart to understand why the common saying that imports serve to domesticate internal prices and control inflation does not always work. The import policy in the case of pork meat looks more than vigorous. Between January and May, pork meat imports, especially from Brazil, have been 24,303 tons. In the first five months of 2024, that same product had entered with 3,939 tons, which "demonstrates that the increase in purchases was gross," in the specialist's opinion. Uccelli also highlighted that in these first five months "more was imported than the entire year 2024," when official records mark pork meat entries of 19,351 tons. Up to here, the hard data. Did these imports serve to lower consumer prices, as the government preaches? Uccelli responded to that questioning: "Imports generally have, according to what the Government proposes, the purpose of lowering the prices consumers pay. Unfortunately, in pork meat, this has ...