First point out a problem in the title: the price of pork fell to more than a dozen dollars a pound, but this price is not available to consumers.

The mainstay of the current price range for pork across the country remains above 20 bucks.

And the ten bucks or so in the title probably refers to the price of hogs at farrowing, or perhaps discounted meat from long-frozen stockpiles.

The second is fine, and consumers in some areas are still able to buy it, but the price of hogs out of the pen really doesn't have much to do with consumers.

While the question in the title is indeed wrong, it is also true that the current price of pork is indeed steadily declining.

The question many consumers will have is: Is it possible for pork to return to the more than a decade ago? the days of ten-plus dollars? What about it?

1, the current situation of the pork market

The surge of pork in the first half of this year is mainly due to two reasons: a large number of domestic hogs died of disease caused by African swine fever, but also because of this reason caused the pork market supply is less than demand.

This is also this year's pork prices so that many consumers called ?

This is also the reason why the price of pork this year has made many consumers say they cannot afford it.

African swine fever is still an internationally recognized problem in the farming industry, a bad one may cause global pork prices to soar, not only our country is plagued by this problem.

But the reason why the second half of the pork prices can be relieved, not without reason.

First, after the first half of the pork market prices soared, resulting in a large amount of capital to see the profit space, a large amount of capital into the breeding industry.

Even had a real estate companies do not sell houses, run to switch to pig farming joke.

But this batch of capital into the hog industry of hogs in fact the probability of hogs have not yet arrived at the time of hogs, but also let those ? hoarding meat prices? s rogue traders feel panicked and have to lower prices to deal with releasing pork stocks.

And then naturally the government's regulation, after all, pork prices market soaring is not conducive to people's livelihood.

And the way to regulate prices is not complicated, the first is to release a large number of stockpile reserve meat, and then is to encourage capital into the breeding industry.

Let the pig industry get marketized as well as formalized, when more competitors in the pork market, naturally, is the time for us consumers to gain.

2, is it possible for the price of pork to return to the era of more than ten dollars?

While it is said that the pork market has entered a large amount of capital, the industry has also begun to eliminate the small and medium-sized farmers, began to have the scale as well as standardization.

But for now, it's still very difficult to bring pork back to the days of ten dollars.

First of all, it is limited by cost, and we don't have the U.S.? God's own son? s conditions, to put it bluntly nine is that we can grow on a large scale with less plains land.

So what does this have to do with the price of pork?

In fact, the price of pork is actually tied to crops like soybeans and corn, because we don't have the conditions to grow these crops on a large scale, so we need to import corn and soybeans.

So our cost of raising hogs is inherently higher than the US.

So perhaps ideally, it would be nice to keep the price at about 20 a pound after capital enters the pork market, and a dozen dollars is really hard!