DCA Market Intelligence publishes a weekly benchmark price for Pigs (Beurs Mutation Price). The specifications of this benchmark price are described below.
Slaughtered pig/pig carcass from standard pig of average quality that complies with the requirements and descriptions set out in Chapter 2 of the Dutch 'Animal Welfare Act' (De Wet Dieren), effective as of July 1, 2014.
Minimum of one standard pig.
Delivery during the same calendar week, from Sunday 00:00 to Saturday 23:59 CET.
Free at Dutch slaughterhouse.
EUR/kg carcass weight.
This benchmark specification follows the DCA General Methodology, which outlines processes including data hierarchy, validation, use of expert judgement, and governance. The benchmark is administered in accordance with DCA’s internal compliance framework. Operational validation and weighting techniques are applied in line with the DCA General Methodology. Detailed controls are not disclosed publicly for confidentiality and data integrity reasons.
The DCA Beurs Mutation Price applies to meat pigs of Dutch origin. This benchmark is produced for and applies to transactions executed within the Netherlands.
The Beurs Mutation Price is a stand-alone weekly price change of meat pigs. No standard/base price is applied; contributors provide the weekly mutation for the current week. The benchmark price excludes VAT. The price is rounded to the nearest whole eurocent (€0.01), in line with the Public Methodology Summary.
Mutation values are based on validated inputs provided by professional market participants. Submissions are reviewed for completeness and consistency; statistical checks identify outliers, which are excluded from the calculation while all submissions remain recorded in DCA’s internal system.
To determine the central tendency of weekly mutation inputs, DCA applies a robust filtering approach. For each assessment week, the median mutation is used as the reference point and dispersion is measured using the Median Absolute Deviation (MAD) (scaled for comparability). Submissions falling outside the predefined acceptance range around the median are treated as outliers and excluded.
Where dispersion is near zero and the standard acceptance range becomes overly restrictive, DCA applies an alternative percentile-based acceptance range (5th–95th percentile) to retain the central bulk of observations while excluding extreme values.
All remaining validated mutation inputs are aggregated using a transparent arithmetic mean (no volume weighting). The resulting weekly mutation is rounded to the nearest whole eurocent and published through DCA’s controlled Price Reporting System.
Price input is collected on Monday from 07:00 until 15:00 CET. The benchmark price is published on Monday at 18:00 CET. Contributors log into the Price Reporting System of DCA Market Intelligence, enter their price, and optionally provide comments. On Monday at 10:00 CET, a reminder will be sent to those contributors who have not yet entered a price. A group of insiders is contacted by a DCA price reporter and asked for an indication of the market. In the event of a public holiday, the collection and publication schedule follows the Public Holiday Schedule published on the DCA platform.
Any questions or complaints regarding this benchmark may be submitted to DCA Market Intelligence via pra@dcami.com, in line with the DCA Complaints and Appeals Procedure (see Public Methodology Summary).
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Version: February 2026