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

China's hog supply chain is analyzed using monthly data from January 2015 to December 2025. The dataset supports a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model examining links between feed costs, piglet prices, and producer margins. It was created by Jinshuai Zhang and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling price pass-through dynamics based on feed cost and piglet price relationships
• Analyzing producer profitability pressure based on the hog-to-feed ratio
• Conducting time-varying estimation of supply chain resilience using subperiod and rolling-window analysis
• Testing for asymmetric transmission mechanisms in agricultural commodity markets

Strengths

• Monthly time-series data spanning 11 years (2015-2025)
• Focus on a major global agricultural sector (China's hog supply chain)
• Analysis employs advanced econometric techniques (NARDL model, cointegration tests)

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The 10.1 KB file size suggests a very limited scope, likely containing summary or model results rather than raw observational data

Provenance

Source

Jinshuai Zhang

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official Chinese agricultural and price statistics.

Time Range

January 2015 to December 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 05:50:44; freshness should be verified

Geography

China