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Canadian hog producers reported 13.9 million hogs on January 1, 2020, down 0.6% from January 1, 2019. This was the second consecutive year-over-year decrease. However, the hog inventory remained 11.3% above the level from a decade earlier.
Quebec had the largest hog inventories among the provinces on January 1, accounting for close to one-third of the Canadian total. Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba together represented over 80% of total Canadian hog inventories.
As of January 1, 7,650 farms reported hogs in Canada, down 0.6% from the same date a year earlier. These farms reported 1.2 million sows and gilts, down 0.7%.
Canada exported 5.1 million hogs in 2019, down 2.8% from 2018 and down 49.0% from the 2007 export peak.
Hog slaughter increased in Canada in the last six months of 2019, up 2.4% from the same period in 2018 to 11.0 million head, coinciding with an increase in the July-to-December average price of Canadian slaughter hogs in 2019. Strong pork demand from several countries, mainly Japan, offset any negative effects from the suspension of exports to China (late June - early November) and may have contributed to the price increase of slaughter hogs and the greater number of hogs slaughtered in Canada.
The July-to-December 2019 pig crop was 14.2 million head, up 1.2% from the same period in 2018.
February 25, 2020/ Statistics Canada/ Canada.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/
