So someone is creating artificial scarcity to push prices sky-high.  I wonder who gets paid off to allow that to happen?

12 hours ago, Gold Star said:

The cheapest meat is deer balls.

You'll always find them under a buck.

What's the difference between Beer Nuts and deer nuts?  Beer Nuts are $1.29.  Deer nuts are under a buck.

That's alot of pork. Hope they did not trow it away before checking it is healthy and help Thailand get more cheaper meat again. 

I guess all the people shooting their mouth off about 14.000 tons being a "big number" know what the usual stock levels for porks are at this time of the year?

 

for comparison, the total consumption of pork in France was just a bit over 2.100.000 tons in 2020. France has roughly the same population as Thailand.

 

14.000 tons therefore seems to be a low number.
that would cover only 2 to 3 days of France's consumption of pork. the French eat about 30 Kg of pork per person per year, the stat for Thailand is about 10 Kg

 

so these 14.000 tons are 9 days of supply.

 

there have been outbreaks of african swine fever in the past years and months.

5 hours ago, kwonitoy said:

I think the 13.4 million kilos is what is know as a "supply chain" 

Not some giant conspiracy.

Supply chain for what.. export only as it's frozen?

Thais street vendors only take fresh slaughtered pork direct from the slaughterhouses.

Plus some of the pork has been stored since the last quarter of 2021... so it's not in the supply chain.

2 hours ago, tgw said:

I guess all the people shooting their mouth off about 14.000 tons being a "big number" know what the usual stock levels for porks are at this time of the year?

 

for comparison, the total consumption of pork in France was just a bit over 2.100.000 tons in 2020. France has roughly the same population as Thailand.

 

14.000 tons therefore seems to be a low number.
that would cover only 2 to 3 days of France's consumption of pork. the French eat about 30 Kg of pork per person per year, the stat for Thailand is about 10 Kg

 

so these 14.000 tons are 9 days of supply.

 

there have been outbreaks of african swine fever in the past years and months.

Right, Numbers matter.

As you mentioned, the average consumption of pork per capita in Thailand is around 10 Kg. Multiplied by around 70 million inhabitants, It's around 700,000 tons/year for the whole country. So 14,000 tons is only 2% of the yearly consumption. It's not much, but may have a bit of impact on prices on short term

https://www.statista.com/statistics/758883/thailand-pork-consumption-per-capita/

13 hours ago, Capella said:

Bat's balls are under a baht.

Not always, bat balls are often over a baht.

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Supply chain for what.. export only as it's frozen?

Thais street vendors only take fresh slaughtered pork direct from the slaughterhouses.

Plus some of the pork has been stored since the last quarter of 2021... so it's not in the supply chain.

The street and a fresh market vendors deal with freshly killed port. 

Your big box stores like Lotus, Big C, villa, Tops rely on frozen pork for distribution, they supply more of the population than the fresh markets.

2 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Not always, bat balls are often over a baht.

Indeed, but are they still under tree baht?

18 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

So what.

 

Is that more, or less, or just the right amount?

 

"rather a large amount". 

 

Can you expand on this thought? Why do you think it's "large"?

 

 

 

 

In Todays modern World of doing Business, its all about JIT, MinMax and Small Inventory levels, especially if it costs a lot of Money to hold Stock ( as it would for Cold Storage Facilities ).

 

11 hours ago, RobU said:

I understand from a friend that many small pork breeders (2 or 3 pigs) are under contract to sell only to specific buyers. However those buyers are refusing to buy and slaughter pigs keeping the price high and the sellers are not allowed to sell elsewhere. It has been going on for some time now the small farmers are going out of business and refuse to raise any more pigs. This price rise has been deliberately manufactured by cartels.

There are also the issues of ever increasing costs for the Pig Food, and Medications.

All manufactured by large Companies that push the prices high to drown the small Pig breeders.

So much for Thai Rak Thai

 

More like Thai bend over & spell run

Well, dear me, Ive heard of hiding the pork sausage, but  this  lot  is beyond a joke.

16 hours ago, neverere said:

Hopefully not a photo album.....????

 

No, it will be a collection of ballads.....about the pork industry.

6 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

In Todays modern World of doing Business, its all about JIT, MinMax and Small Inventory levels, especially if it costs a lot of Money to hold Stock ( as it would for Cold Storage Facilities ).

 

There are also the issues of ever increasing costs for the Pig Food, and Medications.

All manufactured by large Companies that push the prices high to drown the small Pig breeders.

Exactly my point the small breeders are not allowed to sell at the appropriate point when the pig is ready for slaughter and have to keep feeding and treating it incurring costs which are not recouped at point of sale. I.e. the price of the pig remains the same

There are plenty of fresh substitutes available anyway! ????

 

2 hours ago, 248900_1469958220 said:

No, it will be a collection of ballads.....about the pork industry.

 

... featuring Uncle Too alias 'π-noccio' I hope? 

I guess Steve-o could set you up, 555 ...