# Disease drives SA pork and poultry prices up

> South Africa’s pork and poultry industries are facing overlapping biosecurity disruptions, including foot-and-mouth disease and African swine fever in pigs. Movement controls, quarantines and controlled slaughter have constrained supply, while pork prices have reached multi-year highs; poultry prices are also forecast to rise further in 2026.

- Date: 2026-11-07 · published 2026-11-07T07:40:44.394Z
- Category: disease · region South Africa · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/85746-disease-drives-sa-pork-and-poultry-prices-up
- Commodities: [Lean Hogs](https://feedsoft.ai/c/HOGS.md), [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Disease-related controls reduce available pork and poultry supplies, supporting higher prices and potentially shifting demand among competing proteins. This also increases pressure on feed buyers’ animal-protein procurement costs.

## Read by commodity

- HOGS: bullish ▲
- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HOGS | 2019-08-01 | [Poultry prices up amid swine fever in China](https://feedsoft.ai/events/57732-poultry-prices-up-amid-swine-fever-in-china.md) | -0.8% | -15.9% |
| HOGS | 2019-08-26 | [Poultry Prices and China’s African Swine Fever - EMERGING](https://feedsoft.ai/events/57742-poultry-prices-and-china-s-african-swine-fever-emerging.md) | -0.4% | -9.1% |
| HOGS | 2022-03-27 | [Disease Outbreaks in Mexico’s Hog Herd to Drive U.S. Meat Prices Higher](https://feedsoft.ai/events/42423-disease-outbreaks-in-mexico-s-hog-herd-to-drive-u-s-meat-prices-higher.md) | -2.6% | +2.9% |
| HOGS | 2019-10-25 | [China pork prices surge towards $8 a kilo as demand picks up](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56563-china-pork-prices-surge-towards-8-a-kilo-as-demand-picks-up.md) | -0.9% | -5.7% |
| HOGS | 2019-11-12 | [U.S. pork prices rise as fatal pig disease cuts global meat supply: Tyson Foods CEO](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56220-u-s-pork-prices-rise-as-fatal-pig-disease-cuts-global-meat-supply-tyson-foods.md) | -0.3% | -2.4% |

## Sources

- marketwatch.com.na: https://www.marketwatch.com.na/local-news/disease-drives-sa-pork-and-poultry-prices-up-nmh010085-3015-11978

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