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With the final 2014 figures, the ASICI has published the RIBER record's annual data and their evolution.

Acording to Defra, the total number of pigs in England has increased by 1.5% since December 2013 to 3.7 million. Fattening pigs rose by 2.2% which was partly offset by a fall of 3.8% in breeding pigs.

A higher pig herd and increased productivity following the implementation of welfare rules in the sow sector should create conditions for a continuous recovery in production over the projection period at around 23 million tonnes.

According to these data, some of them still provisional, the total number of pigs amounted to 137.2 million; data from Belgium and the UK —still not available—, have yet to be added.

The number of sows has also increased slightly (1%) over the same period last year, reaching 1,046,000 heads.

The agriculture and livestock exports increased by 8.5% during the January-December 2014 period.

Between September and November 2014, 29.4 million pigs were weaned on U.S. farms, up 4 percent from the same time period in 2013.

Mexico is the tenth largest producer of pork, with an annual output of 1.2 million tons.

The stock of pigs rose slightly by roughly 136,600 or 0.5% since May 2014.

The number of slaughtered pigs decreased by 1.3% to 653 858 heads; however, raised weight at slaughter (115.5 kg) caused a slight growth of pigmeat production by 0.6%.

The French pork exports and the prices resisted at the beginning of the year before falling abruptly in July and August.

The total census on 1st October stood at 12.8 million head, which represents an increase of 4% over the same period last year.

During the first nine months of 2014 the slaughterings have dropped by 0.3% in terms of the number of heads, but they have increased by 0.6% in terms of weight.

WASDE raised the commercial pork production forecast for 2015 to 23.9 billion pounds, for the first time exceeds beef output in 62 years.

During the first semester of 2014 a total of 2,491,870 pigs were slaughtered, and this represents an increase by 1.3%.