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Canadian hog, export and farm numbers down

Canadian hog inventories as of October 1 stood at 11.9 million head, down 0.8% from the same date in 2009. There were 7,035 hog farms as of October 1, down 8.3% from the same date one year earlier.
29 October 2010
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Canadian hog inventories as of October 1 stood at 11.9 million head, down 0.8% from the same date in 2009. There were 7,035 hog farms as of October 1, down 8.3% from the same date one year earlier.

Sow inventories were down 3.8% from October 1, 2009, to 1.3 million head. The number of sows expected to farrow in the fourth quarter of 2010 and first quarter of 2011 is down 3.7% and 4.6% respectively from the same period last year.

Canadian hog exports have continued to decline since the third quarter of 2008. Hog exports were down 11.6% in the third quarter of 2010 compared with the same quarter a year earlier to 1.3 million hogs. Compared with the same quarter of 2009, domestic slaughter was down 5.7% to 5.2 million head.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/101028/dq101028b-eng.htm

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