Page 29 of articles about production in Swine news

Increase in production, decrease in exports and worsening of the trade deficit.

Over the year, a number of ‘industrial’ pigs in Ukraine went up by 2%.

Inventory of swine in backyard farms grew. Similarly, stocks in commercial farms expanded.

In 2018, pig production in Russia grew by 6%.

As 2019 gets underway, we see another year full of potential in global pork, with growth in production and demand in many parts of the world. Yet this is overshadowed by the uncertainty created by complex disease and trade issues, as can be read in the just-released RaboResearch report ‘Pork Quarterly Q1 2019: Another Uncertain Year – With More Complex Disease and Trade Issues’.

The total output of pork was 54.04 million tons, down by 0.9 percent.

It is expected that from 2019 to 2023, the import volume of pork and pig offal in China will continue to rise, and China’s pork market will receive attention from the pig farmers and pork traders all over the world.

Commercial pork production is on course to achieve a record in the fourth quarter, at slightly more than 7 billion pounds.

The Australian pig and pig meat industry is the smallest of the livestock industries and the only one competing with imported products.

According to USDA'S Global Agriculture Information Network (GAIN), 2018 Poland swine inventories will decrease by one percent due to low farm-gate prices and growing feed costs.

Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Western Visayas, Central Visayas and Northern Mindanao remained to be the regions with highest swine population.

Output for this quarter was 2.55 percent higher compared with the 2017 level.

EU consumption of pork will decrease from 32.5 kg per capita in 2018 to 31.7 kg in 2030. This decline will be compensated by higher exports, with world import demand that will continue to grow at a rate of 0.7% per year during 2018-2030.

What is the reason for the decrease by 2.5% in pig slaughterings?