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

Monthly data from January 2015 to December 2025 examines feed cost shocks and profitability pressure in China's hog supply chain. The dataset supports a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model analysis of hog prices, piglet prices, and producer margins. It was authored by Jinshuai Zhang and last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-run relationships between feed costs and hog prices based on the described NARDL analysis.
• Analyzing producer profitability pressure based on the hog-to-feed ratio mentioned in the description.
• Investigating asymmetric price pass-through mechanisms in agricultural supply chains based on the described Wald and rolling-window tests.
• Studying the role of piglet prices and breeding-side adjustments in market dynamics as indicated in the description.

Strengths

• Covers a substantial 11-year time range from January 2015 to December 2025.
• Employs advanced econometric models (NARDL, cointegration tests) as described in the source paper.
• Released under a 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 (10.3 KB), suggesting limited scope or aggregated summary statistics.

Provenance

Source

Jinshuai Zhang via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official Chinese agricultural and price statistics.

Time Range

January 2015 to December 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 05:50:48; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China.