Nov 03, 2016 - pig counting slightly more pigs, sows less The results of the recent pig census in Germany provide different Changes in comparison to the Precount may 2016. The number of pig farmers decreased by 0.4%, but the number of sows holders was reduced to considerable-2.5%. The number of pigs as a whole was to + 0.5 slightly increases the number of sows fell - 0.6% each compared to the may.-2016. The stock reduction becomes clearer in a multi-year comparison. Measured on the Nov 2014 , the German pig - 3.76% has decreased stocks. The sows is reducing even - 6.9%. Therefore, Germany is increasingly a piglet deficit area. Different developments were clear in the individual federal States. In the two strongholds of pigs with almost 60% of German pigs increased the holdings in Lower Saxony by 1.3% , while in NRW a decline of 0.4% was detected. Declining numbers between - 0.6 and - 1.5% in the Eastern Laender there Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and of Thuringia, Germany. + 3% were counted more pigs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Striking are the high growth of each 14.5% for the pigs in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Larger sows numbers from + 5.7% in North Rhine-Westphalia and 5.5% in Schleswig-Holstein are due may also the prices of piglets to 2016. In Bavaria , the perennial reduction of piglet production to a halt seems came to be. The Bavarian cattle count was + 3.6% growth in the breeding sows. The national average 219 sows per holder be determined. The changes in each of the weight categories of fattening stocks suggest that when compared to the previous year in the first two months of the year 2017 high slaughter numbers are expected, then but seriously should go back. The stages of gestation the sows results in a decrease in the Abferkelungen by more than 3% in the 1st half of 2017. As a whole must be expected for the year 2017 with a declining volume of pigs from domestic origin . Pig imports will increase slightly after they have rather shown a stagnant trend in recent years.
