Pig manufacturing declined 11% year-on-year
24 January 2024
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In keeping with the newest Defra figures, the United Kingdom produced 71,900 t of pig meat in December, a considerable decline of 14,300 t in comparison to the similar month the former 12 months. This concludes every other difficult 12 months for the United Kingdom beef trade. For the total 12 months of 2023, the United Kingdom produced 927,400 t of pig meat, an 11% 12 months on 12 months decline and the bottom annual quantity recorded since 2018, in step with a contemporary AHDB file from senior analyst Freya Shuttleworth.
Carcase weights were decrease all over 2023 in comparison to 2022, averaging at 89.1kg. Alternatively the most important motive force in decreased pig meat manufacturing comes from a pointy fall within the collection of pigs slaughtered, now not weight.
Blank pig kill in December totalled 781,800 head, a lack of over 177,000 head from December 2022, regardless of reported efforts to drag pigs forwards forward of Christmas. Opposed rainy climate prerequisites brought about flooding and wider disruption all through the month and will have had an affect on throughputs. For the total 12 months, blank pig kill in 2023 fell 10% 12 months on 12 months to ten.06 million head, the bottom annual blank pig kill in a decade (in 2013 the United Kingdom blank pig used to be 10.05 million head).
Sow and boar kill has additionally fallen in 2023, down 15% 12 months on 12 months, most probably because of the contraction noticed in the United Kingdom pig herd all over 2022 and 2023.