Page 15 of articles about statistics

The stock of pigs rose slightly by roughly 136,600 or 0.5% since May 2014.

The number of slaughtered pigs decreased by 1.3% to 653 858 heads; however, raised weight at slaughter (115.5 kg) caused a slight growth of pigmeat production by 0.6%.

The French pork exports and the prices resisted at the beginning of the year before falling abruptly in July and August.

The total census on 1st October stood at 12.8 million head, which represents an increase of 4% over the same period last year.

During the first nine months of 2014 the slaughterings have dropped by 0.3% in terms of the number of heads, but they have increased by 0.6% in terms of weight.

WASDE raised the commercial pork production forecast for 2015 to 23.9 billion pounds, for the first time exceeds beef output in 62 years.

During the first semester of 2014 a total of 2,491,870 pigs were slaughtered, and this represents an increase by 1.3%.

We must highlight the important increases in the last 10 years in Aragon (+58.39%), Galicia (+24.53%) and Catalonia (+6.83%).

According to the data of the Central Statistics Office of Poland, the swine census in June 2014 was 11.724 million animals, which implies an increase by 5.0%.

Inventory of all hogs and pigs on September 1, 2014 was 65.4 million head. This was down 2 percent from September 1, 2013, but up 6 percent from June 1, 2014.

The total number of pigs in England decreased by 2.8% from 4.1 million animals in 2013 to 4.0 million in 2014.

With respect to the year-to-date during the first 7 months of 2014, the number of slaughtered pigs is 0.5% lower and the pigs have a similar weight in comparison with the same period in 2013.

For January-July, exports established a record pace in both volume (1.32 million mt, +7 percent) and value ($4.0 billion).

United States and Canadian inventory of all hogs and pigs for June 2014 was 75.1 million head. This was down 4 percent from June 2013, and down 5 percent from June 2012.

As of June 1, there were 62.1 million hogs and pigs on U.S. farms, the lowest inventory since 2007.

Since November 2013 the number of holdings that keep pigs for fattening has fallen by 900 (–3.9%) to about 22,700.