Feed Cost Shocks and Profitability Pressure in China's Hog Supply Chain, 2015-2025

China's hog supply chain is analyzed using monthly data from January 2015 to December 2025. The dataset likely contains time-series variables for feed costs, piglet prices, hog prices, and producer margins. It was authored by Jinshuai Zhang and last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Modeling asymmetric price transmission based on feed cost shocks mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing long-run cointegration relationships between feed costs, piglet prices, and hog prices.
• Assessing producer profitability pressure using the hog-to-feed ratio indicator.
• Conducting rolling-window or subperiod time-varying estimation for supply chain dynamics.

Strengths

• Covers a defined 11-year monthly time series from 2015 to 2025.
• Employs a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model, suggesting structured econometric analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

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 (10.1 KB), indicating limited scope or highly aggregated data.

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 05:50:47; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China.