Pig farming in the Netherlands: tight area limited by environmental factors Holland has a share of 7.5% to Germany, Spain, France and Poland, the fourth-largest pork producer in the EU. The domestic pork production has been stagnant for years. The pig farming in the Netherlands has little room in their evolution. High performance density on scarce surface volume of production is rigorously limited by environmental concerns. Within the existing framework adjustment processes take place however, aimed at an optimal exhaustion of permissible production capacity. The import and export of Lebendschweinen has significantly decreased. For the domestic slaughter have increased a little. The biggest thrust but come from pig exports . In contrast to many other neighbouring countries with declining numbers of sows, Holland has kept his sows inventory of 1.1 million animals, mainly. Increasing power of piglets per sow and year lead to a growing surplus of piglets in limited fattening capacity domestically. Is a cut-throat competition between slaughter pigs and pig production. The pig production in the advantage is due to the reduced environmental impact. The disadvantages of dependence be borders, because the transport routes for most of the animals are relatively short for North Germany. On a rising scale pig exports in more distant supplies countries such as Poland, Romania and Italy are necessary. Spain was a big customer of Dutch piglets in previous expansion years. In recent years, Spanish imports due to its own supply are only minimally. In the 1st half of the year 2016 , an additional impetus in the Dutch pig exports has come. The export figures rose compared with the previous year to more than 12%. Background for the export boom were low pork prices in the spring, which made the pig farm in Holland seem very attractive. If this trend continues, it is rather doubtful that the mast in the existing capacity is quite attractive at current market rates.
