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The volume of pork produced in the first half of 2023 was 2.1 million tons (-9.4% compared to the same period of the previous year).

The states of Jalisco, Sonora, Puebla, and Veracruz accounted for more than 50% of Mexico's swine inventory in 2022.

Global pork markets are being influenced by sluggish economic growth, weak consumption, recurrent disease outbreaks, and productivity issues.

The world corn production forecast was cut by 11 million tons from July's report. For soybeans, crop estimates were reduced by approximately 2.5 million due to lower expected U.S. production.

Total grain sown area, yield per unit area, and total grain output of summer grain in 2023.

Pork production and hog slaughter were up in the first half of 2023.

Throughout the first half of the year, swine production showed sustained growth.

Low numbers of slaughtered pigs on the EU market continue supporting high pig prices while EU demand stays high.

Despite the expected drop in EU cereal area and reduced yield growth, EU cereal production is due to be higher this year.

In its latest report "Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade" on July 12, USDA updated its estimates for 2023, maintaining its production figure and estimating a better outlook for international trade taking into account the possible greater momentum of shipments from the United States and Brazil.

In this new update, the projection for world soybean production was cut by more than 5 million tons compared to the June report, due to a lower planted area in the United States. Estimates for corn were slightly higher than in the previous report.

The monthly traded volume of soybeans closed in June 2023 at its lowest level in at least the last six and a half years.

Global agricultural and food production are projected to continue to increase over the next ten years, but at a slower pace of growth than the previous decade due to demographic trends, according to the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2023-2032.

At the beginning of May 2023, the number of pigs in Germany was 20.7 million head, down 7.3% from the previous year.

As of June 1, there were 72.4 million hogs and pigs on U.S. farms.