The year-on-year decline in UK beef manufacturing endured thru September, at the again of lowered pig numbers coming during the gadget.
Defra’s newest per 30 days slaughter statistics display September UK blank pig slaughterings had been down 11% on September 2022 at 780,000 head, with pigmeat manufacturing 10.2%,73,000 tonnes, down, proceeding contemporary per 30 days tendencies.
The pig slaughter determine for September was once down from 875,000 in August and 878,000 in September 2022, as soon as once more highlighting the have an effect on of the decline of the United Kingdom breeding herd in 2022. The 11% decline in September follows year-on-year deficits of 6% and 15% in July.
With regards to the weekly moderate, the determine of 182,000 for September was once down from the August weekly moderate of 198,000 and the September 2022 determine of 205,000, a 12.6% year-on-year decline.
Reasonable carcase weights are on the upward thrust, then again. The September UK moderate of 89.7kg was once up from the August determine of 89.3kg and the September 2022 determine of 88.3kg. As outcome, the ten.2% year-on-year drop in manufacturing is relatively less than the autumn in slaughter numbers.
Slaughterings have larger in August, in keeping with AHDB’s estimated GB slaughterings, which, for the week ended October 7, had been up just about 13,000 at the earlier week at 169,302, albeit nonetheless 19,000 beneath the similar week in 2022. Reasonable carcase weights within the SPP pattern crowned 90kg for the primary time this 12 months, emerging by means of 0.7kg to 90.31kg.