Denmark increases piglet exports – attract attractive rates abroad The monthly Reporting to the Danish pig exports showed a further increase in the piglet quantities exported abroad. Contains you to offset monthly fluctuations results in quarterly periods together, results for the 1st quarter of 2016 a pig lot 327 million animals. That is compared to the same period of last year increase approximately 11.5%. Abroad 3.32 million piglets were transported in the 2nd quarter of 2016 . The increase to the previous year date is approximately 10.9%. The repeated increases to last year suggest that in the remaining quarters of the year also a boost is pending. Rising export volumes show that exports due to the achievable prices in the deficit countries is quite worthwhile. Normally, Germany the largest buyer of Danish pigis, however, the share of total exports goes back. High growth rates are for Poland , lack of piglets due to the reduction of Polish sows resources continuously increases. As well as other Eastern European countries belong to the importers of piglets from Denmark. The cattle counts according to the number of Danish sows rather backgoes. The additional pig for export can not come from this source. The rising export piglets Denmark on the one hand come from performance per sow and year and the increasing abandonment of the pig in the country. This is to read from the constantly falling slaughter numbers in the year 2016 by approximately 2.6%. The pig prices in deficit countries Germany and Poland are sufficiently high to cover the transportation and marketing costs. Similar conditions are also for Holland to watch.
