Feed Cost Shocks and Hog Supply Chain Dynamics in China, 2015-2025

Table 7_Feed cost shocks and profitability pressure in China’s hog supply chain contains monthly data from January 2015 to December 2025, used for nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) analysis. The dataset, authored by Jinshuai Zhang and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license, examines the relationship between feed costs, piglet prices, and downstream hog-sector outcomes. It was last updated on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling price transmission dynamics based on feed cost and piglet price data
• Assessing producer profitability pressure based on the hog-to-feed ratio
• Conducting time-varying estimation of supply chain relationships using rolling-window analysis

Strengths

• Data covers a substantial 11-year monthly time series from 2015 to 2025
• Analysis employs advanced econometric methods including NARDL and cointegration tests as described

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 9.9 KB, indicating limited scope or aggregated summary data

Provenance

Source

Jinshuai Zhang

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official Chinese agricultural and market statistics for analysis.

Time Range

January 2015 to December 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 05:50:46; freshness should be verified

Geography

China