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The increase in the average carcass weight made pork production rise by 1,000 tonnes with respect to 2015.  

In December 2016 UK clean pig slaughterings were 8.4% lower.

According to Ukrinform, in 2017, Ukraine's meat imports are expected to increase by 20%, or 30,000 tonnes.

One of the key elements to these results lies, in the words of Vice president of the Grupo Empresarial Ganadero Carlos Vladimir Ortiz Mursulí, in the "empowerment of genetics".

Pork production reached a new record in 2016.

In 2016, pig production increased by 9.4%.

Livestock production increased by 4 percent in 2016.

In the last 8 years the number of pigs slaughtered in Russia has grown by 5 million heads.

The decrease in the number of pigs observed since November 2014 has been stopped for the time being.

The last pig census confirms an increase of 4% in relation to the same period of the previous year.

Which Member States are the biggest producers of cereals, tomatoes or apples? And which produce the most meat from cattle, pigs or poultry?

In 2016, the livestock and fowl production for slaughter increased by 5%, reaching more than 14 million tonnes in liveweight.

Pigmeat production is now expected to expand only marginally (by less than 1.3 % by 2026 compared to its 2016 high levels).

Between January and October 2016, pig production for slaughter in the Russian farms has grown by 13.5% in terms of liveweight.

Hog prices will continue to reflect very large supplies of slaughter-ready animals. Average fourth -quarter live equivalent prices for 51-52 percent lean animals are expected to average $34 -$36 per cwt, almost 22 percent below a year ago.

Romanian swine inventories have been on a continuous downward trend since 2010, falling by 8 percent in five years.