China Hog Supply Chain Feed Cost and Profitability Analysis, 2015-2025

Monthly data from January 2015 to December 2025 underpins a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) analysis of China's hog supply chain. Author Jinshuai Zhang uses this data to examine the link between feed cost shocks, hog prices, and producer profitability pressure. The findings highlight piglet prices as having a larger long-run association with hog prices than direct feed cost shocks.

Use Cases

• Modeling price transmission dynamics based on feed costs and piglet prices
• Assessing producer profitability pressure based on the hog-to-feed ratio
• Testing for asymmetric pass-through of cost shocks using NARDL specifications
• Evaluating supply chain resilience based on repeated feed cost shock absorption

Strengths

• Data covers a significant 11-year period from 2015 to 2025
• Analysis employs advanced econometric models including NARDL and rolling-window estimation
• Released under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The dataset is very small at 10.1 KB, suggesting limited scope or aggregated summary data

Provenance

Source

Jinshuai Zhang via figshare

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official Chinese agricultural and market statistics

Time Range

January 2015 to December 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 05:50:49

Geography

China