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As reported in previous newsletters Spanish pig population & export growth has been accelerating at a rapid pace since last year. Spain is getting very close to Germany now in terms of pig numbers. Mexico has also now opened as an export market for Spain which is a boost to potential export volumes. We expect […]

Spanish pork exports continue to grow and grow. With the largest sow herd in Europe, and now the largest pig herd too, exports have been growing at rapid levels. Exports in May showed a 40% increase compared with a year earlier. As evidenced by below AHDB graph growth has been almost continual for 18 months, […]

Is Spain now the leading European pork exporter to non-EU markets? In 2015 Germany and Spain both overtook Denmark, traditionally the leading exporter of EU pork outside the European Union, with export volumes  to non-EU markets of over 300,000t each. With a big increase in production and Spain having a higher % of production going […]