{"id":67547,"date":"2025-08-08T12:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/67547\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:12:08","slug":"china-plans-to-trim-sow-herd-as-pork-oversupply-pressures-markets-swineweb-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/67547\/","title":{"rendered":"China Plans to Trim Sow Herd as Pork Oversupply Pressures Markets &#8211; Swineweb.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/china-696x464.webp.webp\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"china\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/464;\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"514\">Amid glutted markets and falling prices, Chinese authorities are reportedly planning to reduce the national sow herd by 1 million head. This follows a mid-June estimate of approximately 40.43 million sows in the breeding population.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"516\" data-end=\"766\">Pork prices in China are down nearly 20% year-over-year, fueled by sluggish economic recovery and high production levels. The government appears focused on curbing oversupply to counter deflationary trends and re-balance the domestic pork sector.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"768\" data-end=\"1204\">As the world\u2019s largest pork producer and consumer, China plays a critical role in global markets. Domestic instability there directly impacts exporters. Notably, U.S. pork exports to China slipped by 2.4% in volume and 11.1% in value in June compared to a year earlier. For the first half of 2025, those numbers were down sharply\u2014volume dropped 19% to around 181,544 metric tonnes; value fell 17% to about US $435.7 million.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1206\" data-end=\"1484\">This slowdown underscores the growing importance of diversification and resilience in export strategies\u2014key to navigating fluctuations in demand from major markets like China. A tighter sow herd may offer some stabilization domestically, but global producers need to stay agile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid glutted markets and falling prices, Chinese authorities are reportedly planning to reduce the national sow herd by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28,112],"class_list":["post-67547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}