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Clean pig kill in 2023 fell 10% year on year to the lowest annual clean pig kill in a decade.

The Ministry of Agriculture will improve the treatment of livestock waste by transforming it into bioenergy, biochar, and solid fuels.

This is how many pigs were sold, how much pork was produced, and how many pigs were in China in 2023.

This was the first outbreak of 2024 and the first case of African swine fever in the Gyeongbuk region.

If the weather holds, a record corn season is expected, with the potential for record third-quarter exports.

Crop production reached a value of 37.3 billion euros (+1.4%), while livestock production was estimated at 35.3 billion euros (-0.8%).

We present how African swine fever has evolved in different European countries since its confirmation in 2014, with data updated to 2023.

In December, the increase in production costs was influenced by the cost of animal feed, which rose by 1.61% and accounted for 74.83% of the total.

Santa Catarina was responsible for 21% of the total meat exported by Brazil in 2023, a higher percentage than in the previous year.

Montenegro reports the first occurrence of ASF in the country, found in wild boar.

Compared to the December report, estimates for world corn production were improved, with higher crops forecast for the United States, China, and Brazil. Soybean projections for Brazil were cut again and forecasts for Argentina and the United States increased, keeping the global crop estimate for oilseeds unchanged.

In its latest report "Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade" on January 12, USDA recalculated the closing figures for 2023 and its estimates for 2024, forecasting a decrease in world pork production this year, due to lower productions in China, the European Union, and Brazil.

Shipments to China totaled just 1,749 t in the January-November period.

If projections are realized, the volume would decrease by 13.5 million tons compared to 2022/23.

The pig inventory increased for the first time since November 2020. On November 3, 2023, there were 1.3% more head than six months earlier.