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On November 3, 2023, 5.84 million pigs were kept on pig farms in North Rhine-Westphalia according to preliminary results. According to Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia, the state statistical office, based on the representative pig census, the number of pigs increased by 0.9% compared to November 2022 (then: 5.79 million pigs). In the same period, the number of farms with a minimum herd of 50 pigs or ten breeding sows fell further to 5,350 farms (-5.8%). In 2013, there were still 8,227 pig farms. This corresponds to a decrease of 35.0% compared to November 2023.
The average farm size thus increased from 1,018 to 1,092 pigs between November 2022 and November 2023. Ten years earlier, a North Rhine-Westphalian farm kept an average of 896 pigs.
An increase of 1.5% to 1.17 million animals was recorded for fattening pigs weighing between 50 and under 80 kilograms compared to November 2022. Overall, the number of fattening pigs fell by 0.2% to 2.75 million animals, the lowest level in the past ten years. At 47.1%, fattening pigs accounted for just under half of the total pig population in November 2023.
In contrast, there were increases in the number of piglets (1.65 million; +1.8%), breeding pigs over 50 kilograms liveweight (339,300 animals; +1.7%), and young pigs (1.09 million animals; +2.2%).
December 13, 2023/ Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia/ Germany.
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