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  • Germany: Number of livestock farms down 4% in three years

    According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), based on the final results of the 2023 agricultural structure survey, the number of livestock farms fell by around 4% or 7,100 farms between 2020 (around 168,800 farms) and 2023.

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  • Germany Approves Origin Labeling Regulations for Fresh Meat

    The new regulation extends the indication of the origin of fresh, chilled, and frozen pork, sheep, goat, and poultry meat to non-prepackaged meat.

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  • Germany: Record Prices for Agricultural Products in 2022

    The prices of animal products have risen sharply. They increased in price by 36.8% on average in 2022 compared to 2021. This was also the highest change since the survey began in 1961. This price increase is due, among other things, to a sharp increase in milk prices (+44.8%) due to a scarce supply of raw milk. Price increases in animals (+31.1%) and eggs (+24.4%) also impacted the high change in animal products due to rising feed and energy costs.

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  • Germany has handed over diesel generators to Ukrainian food producers

    The Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) will transfer more than 700 generators to support the Ukrainian energy system with funding from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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  • Germany: Further decrease in Lower Saxony's pig population

    Compared to November 2021, the total number of pigs is down 8.9% to 7.1 million, the lowest level in a decade.

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  • Germany lacks veterinarians in agriculture

    There is currently a shortage of veterinarians in Germany. Of the approximately 22,000 veterinarians currently practicing in Germany (including around 12,000 practice owners and 10,000 salaried veterinarians), only around 3,500 are still treating farm animals. 

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  • Germany: Animal production reached 26 billion euros in 2021

    In animal production, staff shortages due to COVID-19 and strict quarantine measures in the slaughterhouses and cutting plants led to a reduction in production. A 1.7 percent lower slaughter volume and around 2.6 percent lower slaughter cattle prices were achieved. The production value was estimated at 13 billion euros, almost 5 percent lower than in the previous year.

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  • Germany: ASF found in wild boar in white zone of Oder-Spree, Brandenburg

    Several wild boar carcasses infected with African swine fever virus have been found in the white zone of the Oder-Spree district.

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  • Germany: Drop in compound feed production in 2021/22

    Due to the reduced pig inventory, the volume of pig feed production fell by 7.6%, but is still the most important, with 9.1 million tons.

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  • Germany: Mandatory labeling of meat according to husbandry

    The Federal Government has approved the draft law on the labeling of food products of animal origin according to the way in which the animals are raised.

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  • Germany: Pork stocks are declining

    In August, the stock of pork in German cold stores was once again significantly reduced. As a result of the outsourcing of the past few months, inventories are again at a level that is only slightly higher than before the start of the Corona crisis.

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  • Germany grants a second aid package for the swine industry

    It is a small energy-specific aid package and will complete the first package that began to be paid last week.

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  • Germany agrees on solidarity-based financing of ASF control measures

    The Ministers of Agriculture have agreed that the federal states not affected by African swine fever should share the costs of measures to combat it with the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Saxony.

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  • Germany: Larger pig inventory compared to provisional data

    The final results of the swine census published by Destatis as of November 3, 2021 show that the drop in pig inventory is somewhat less than expected based on the preliminary results reported in December.

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  • Germany: Further drop in meat consumption in 2021

    In 2021, per capita pork consumption decreased by 1.2 kilograms compared to the previous year.

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  • Germany: Meat production dropped further in 2021

    A total of 51.8 million pigs were slaughtered in 2021, a 2.9% decrease compared to the previous year. The slaughter of imported pigs was reduced by almost half.

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  • German farmers give up pig keeping as prices and demand low

    The number of pigs on German farms has fallen to the lowest in 25 years and more farmers are giving up keeping them because of weak demand and low pork prices, Germany’s national statistics office said on Wednesday.

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  • Germany: Number of pig farms halved since 2010

    According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of pig farms has decreased by 47% in the last ten years.

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  • Germany: Decrease in slaughter in first quarter of 2021

    Pig slaughter in Germany was down 4.2% in the first quarter of 2021.

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