For the entire 12 months of 2023, the United Kingdom produced 927,400 t of pig meat, an 11% year-on-year decline and the bottom annual quantity recorded since 2018.
Carcass weights had been decrease right through 2023 in comparison to 2022, averaging 89.1kg. On the other hand, the major motive force in lowered pig meat manufacturing comes from a pointy fall within the selection of pigs slaughtered, now not weight.
For the entire 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 was once 10.05 million head).
Sow and boar kill has additionally fallen in 2023, down 15% 12 months on 12 months, most likely because of the contraction noticed in the United Kingdom pig herd right through 2022 and 2023.
January 19, 2024/ AHDB/ United Kingdom.
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