USA: pork exports post strong first quarter growth
U.S. pork exports finished the first quarter 8 percent higher in volume (598,058 metric tons) and 20 percent higher in value ($1.66 billion) than last year’s record pace.
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Spain: pork ranks second in the Food and Beverage exports sector.
Among the products most exported, wine takes the lead, followed by pork and olive oil.
Description of the Chilean pig sector
The annual pig meat production is 500,000 tons, and the amount assigned to exportation reaches a 40% of the total. The geographical characteristics of Chile provide it with unique conditions that have allowed the eradication of diseases such as PRRS.
FAO: Global meat output is set to expand by nearly 2 percent
Driven exclusively by gains in poultry and pigmeat production, global meat output is set to expand by nearly 2 percent to 302 million tonnes in 2012.
Italy: data on pig sector trade in 2011
The import of live pigs (including all categories, such as breeders) has increased by 4.7%.
The outlook for UK red meat production
The net result is that UK clean pig slaughterings in 2012 are forecast to be up by around two per cent compared with 2011.
Canada: hog inventories up 1,8%
Canadian hog producers had 12.0 million hogs on their farms as of April 1, up 1.8% from the same date in 2011.
Czech Republic: decline in pigmeat production
The total pigmeat production decreased by 9.2% y-o-y to 60 018 tonnes.
United States hog inventory up 2 percent
United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2012 was 64.9 million head.
Germany: ISN Slaughterhouse Ranking
Over the past years, the german pig slaughterers knew only one motto: increasing the slaughter capacity. Now a phase of consolidation seems to be started.
Italy: slight decrease in the number of sows
Details from the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) show a decrease of 1.20% in the number of sows.
France: decline in pig production in 2011
According to Agreste there were a total of 25,200,000 animals, down by 1% compared with 2010.
United Kingdom: total number of pigs decreased by 1.3%
The total number of pigs in the UK decreased by 1.3% since December 2010 to just over 4.3 million.
Spain: the slaughter of pigs increased by 2.98% in 2011
The latest data published by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture on the number of pigs slaughtered during the past year shows an increase of 2.98% compared to 2010.
Slovenia: 2011 fewer pigs slaughtered
In 2011 fewer animals slaughtered than in the previous year (-5%).
European Union: decrease in number of sows
The decrease in the number of sows in the EU is 4.7 percent.