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Driven exclusively by gains in poultry and pigmeat production, global meat output is set to expand by nearly 2 percent to 302 million tonnes in 2012.

The import of live pigs (including all categories, such as breeders) has increased by 4.7%.

The net result is that UK clean pig slaughterings in 2012 are forecast to be up by around two per cent compared with 2011.

Canadian hog producers had 12.0 million hogs on their farms as of April 1, up 1.8% from the same date in 2011.

The total pigmeat production decreased by 9.2% y-o-y to 60 018 tonnes.

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2012 was 64.9 million head.

Details from the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) show a decrease of 1.20% in the number of sows.

According to Agreste there were a total of 25,200,000 animals, down by 1% compared with 2010.

The total number of pigs in the UK decreased by 1.3% since December 2010 to just over 4.3 million.

The latest data published by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture on the number of pigs slaughtered during the past year shows an increase of 2.98% compared to 2010.

In 2011 fewer animals slaughtered than in the previous year (-5%).

The decrease in the number of sows in the EU is 4.7 percent.

EU production is expected to decline (-1%) due to poor profitability in past years and the need for investments.

Aggregate farm cash receipts for livestock are forecast to be a record $20.6 billion, which is a 9% increase over 2010 and is 12% higher than the 2006-2010 average.

The number of operations with hogs totaled 69,100 for 2011, unchanged from 2010.