Pigs: price paid to producers in São Paulo falls 3% in June compared to the previous month.

Prices for live pigs delivered to the processing plant continued to fall in June – marking the sixth consecutive month of declines. In the SP-5 region (Bragança Paulista, Campinas, Piracicaba, São Paulo, and Sorocaba), prices reached their lowest level since July 2006, in real terms (values were deflated by the IGP-DI of May 2026). The average price for the month was R$ 5.25/kg, down 2.9% compared to May and a significant 41.2% decrease compared to June 2025. In July 2006, the animal was sold for R$ 5.14/kg in SP-5, according to Cepa/Esalq-USP.

Exchange rate and inputs

In June, the average prices of live pigs delivered to the SP-5 market (Bragança Paulista, Campinas, Piracicaba, São Paulo and Sorocaba), of a 60 kg bag of corn and a ton of soybean meal, both traded in the Campinas/SP bulk market, fell similarly compared to the previous month. This ended the eight-month sequence of unfavorable prices compared to corn.

Competing meats

The price of premium pork carcasses sold in Greater São Paulo fell in June, influenced by high industry inventories. However, as the prices of the two main competing proteins (beef carcasses and chilled chicken) traded in the same market fell even more sharply, pork lost competitiveness compared to these products.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.