date:Aug 07, 2014
$0.31USD/lb.), (up 3.6 per cent).
However, the general feed prices for finisher market pigs had an increase of 1.5 to 2.2 per cent (for example, the complete feed for market pigs was 10,490 VND/kg) ($495/tonne-$449/ton).
The main reasons are that the lowered priced ingredients are still in the warehouse as inventory until the higher priced ingredients are fed and also freight rates have increased.
On the import of feed materials and according to recent data, for the first 5 months of 2014, th