After a five-week price plateau at the end of 2025, pig liveweight prices in Ukraine slightly weakened in the first ten days of January, ProAgro Group reports.

According to the weekly monitoring of procurement prices conducted by the Association of Ukrainian Pig Producers, the first trading sessions of January ended with a decline in purchase prices for slaughter pigs. Most marketable batches are currently bought within the range of UAH 65–68 per kg, while the weighted average price fell to UAH 66.1 per kg. This is 5.9%, or UAH 4.2 per kg, lower than last week’s level.

Representatives of the meat processing sector mainly attribute the negative price dynamics to a supply of live pigs that slightly exceeds current demand, including due to higher slaughter weights. In particular, some processors purchased smaller volumes in previous weeks because of shortened holiday work schedules, leaving several producers unable to sell all planned volumes during the festive period.

At present, most buyers refrain from making forecasts for upcoming trading sessions and are taking a wait-and-see approach. At the same time, they plan to operate with standard volumes of live pigs, while some expect stabilization in final sales after the end of the winter holidays. Although there are currently no clear drivers for price growth, market participants also do not anticipate a further sharp decline in procurement prices.

Earlier it was reported, citing State Statistics Service of Ukraine, that pork prices had been rising on a monthly basis since June 2024 and by the end of 2025 were 40% higher than a year earlier.