Shipments, previously about 500,000 piglets per month, were 390,000 in October and only 285,000 in November. Imports of piglets from Denmark to Germany in November are 47% lower than the same month last year.
According to the national statistics office, there were a total of 11.90 million pigs in Denmark as of October 1, 2022, a decrease of 1.31 million, or 9.9%, from a year earlier.
Now the pig population in Denmark has fallen to its lowest level in more than 20 years in a single October.
During the last survey, fewer animals were recorded in all categories. The relative decline was greatest for fattening pigs, down 11.5% to 2.77 million head. The number of piglets was down 7.9% to 2.47 million. The total number of breeding sows was down 89,000, or 7.1% from last year, to just under 1.16 million head.
The main organization of the Danish agro-food industry (L&F) names the two main reasons for the reduction of pig breeding in the country: high production costs and low profitability of pig breeding from the summer of 2021.
PigUA.info by agrarheute.com