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The number of pigs decreased in October, in comparison with the previous month. The difference in quantity is 67.1 thousand pigs or 1%.

Pig production in the Philippines posted gains of 1.64% in the first nine months of 2011.

In the 3rd quarter of 2011, the number of pigs for slaughter went down by 3.4% to 728 016 heads.

In the third quarter of 2011, 15.2 million pigs were commercially slaughtered in Germany, that was 3.5% or 521,000 animals more than in the same quarter a year earlier.

According to published data Germany, Spain and France are the largest producers of pig meat in the EU27.

Thailand's Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives has reported an estimated losses of 13.3 million of livestock in the ongoing floods that have swept through central Thailand.

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on September 1, 2011 was 66.6 million head. This was up 1 percent from September 1, 2010 but down slightly from September 1, 2009.

Total pork production in 2012 is projected up by two percent to 1.28 million MT (or total slaughter of 16.6 million heads).

On October 1, 2011, there were an estimated 12.0 million hogs held on Canadian farms, an increase of 0.9% relative to the same date a year earlier.

Pork exports increased by 3.1% in the period between January and August of 2011.

The total number of pigs in the UK remained unchanged in 2011 at 4.5 million.

Russia’s swine inventory will likely grow about 2.7 percent to 17.545 million head at the end of December 2012 from 17.2 million head at the end of December 2011, supported by lower feed prices in the second half of the year and increased state support.

In 2010 there were just over 12 million agricultural holdings and an utilised agricultural area (UAA) of 170 million hectares in the EU27.

United States and Canadian inventory of all hogs and pigs for June 2011 was 76.9 million head. This was up 1 percent from June 2010, but down 3 percent from June 2009.

During the first semester of this year the number of pigs slaughtered in Spain has increased by 1.84% compared to the same period last year.

In May of 2011, the production of pork in France decreased by 1%. In June of 2011 the downward trend in slaughters continued, with a decrease of 1.8%.