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Updated estimates for the key variables of world pig production in 2024, annual variations. Prepared by 333 Latin America with data from FAS - USDA.

World pig farming: Updated estimates for 2024 from USDA

19-Apr-2024

In its latest report "Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade" released on April 11, the USDA revised its estimates for 2024, forecasting a decrease in world pork production, which would be due to lower production in China, offset by increases expected in the United States, European Union, and Brazil.

Intricate balance

Slaughterhouses will suffer a very complicated summer; in addition to the normal lack of pigs, there will be the absence of hundreds of thousands of piglets, victims of PRRS. Sooner rather than later, we will only be able to slaughter just four days a week.