ASOPROVAC requires a strong cap to halt speculation in the market of raw materials for animal feed to Brussels

To tenor of the speculative situation that lives in the last months the market of the raw materials for animal feeding, especially the one of cereals, the Spanish Association of Producers of Beef of Meat (Asoprovac) demands fast and effective performances to Brussels. In concrete, the beef of meat is a production grazier especially sensitive to the price of the cereals, so much by the fact that they constitute the base of the feeding of these animals, as by the length of the productive cycle of the same. In this sense, the entity fears that they repeat the consequences that for the sector had the rise of prices in previous campaigns (2007-2008 and 2008-2009), in numerous exploitations devoted to the bait of beef of meat that saw abocadas to the failure.

However, Asoprovac signals that unlike the mentioned campaigns in which the increase of prices produced because of a real decrease of the harvests, in this occasion gives a clear example of speculation, as the stocks of cereals in the EU are more than sufficient. To trial of the association is using the situation and the recent public statements of leaders of some countries announcing the reduction of his exports –Russia or Ukraine– to cause a fluctuation of prices that at all has to see with a normal market based in the traditional law of offer and demand. “The predictable volatility of prices only benefits to the especuladores and no to the agriculturalists –that at present retain the commodity expecting greater prices–-, of equal way to as it occurred in the past”, has declared in this regard Alberto Juanola, president of Asoprovac.

Thus, from the association demand a Common Agricultural Politics strong, able to give answer to the challenges of the market and to control the speculative processes. Specifically, Asoprovac urges to the estamentos competent of the European Union to that they launch a clear and unambiguous message to the markets about his immediate predisposition to use the cereal of intervention stored in previous campaigns –more than 6 million tonnes of cereals–. “Only like this it will be possible –affirm his managers– cut of root speculative movements that, as it showed in previous years, so many economic losses comport for the graziers, máxime when they cross already an economic situation very adjusted”. Besides the producers of beef remember that, like the experience showed in previous campaigns, to half term these speculative movements are also hurtful for the own agriculturalists, since the disappearance of important part of his first customers –the exploitations graziers –, causes inevitably a descent in the consumption of his productions.