Inside: Pigs & Feed
Slaughter figures in 2017 lag behind other years
In France in particular, slaughterhouses do not get their hooks filled properly in the first weeks of 2017. The same problem, albeit to a lesser extent, also affects the Germans and the Danes, while the Dutch slaughter figures are also below last year's level.
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German slaughterhouses processed 989.257 pigs last week. Last year, the factories slaughtered more than a million pigs three times in the first 6 weeks of the year. These figures were not achieved in 2017 and the slaughter figures were also up to 2 percent below the five-year average.
The country where the number of slaughters clearly lags behind other years is France. Last week, French slaughterhouses slaughtered 362.819 pigs. A minus of 2 percent compared to 2015. In previous weeks, the difference even reached 5 percent. In America, the record figures that were recorded at the end of last year are no longer being achieved. Weekly slaughter figures are around 2,3 million pigs. This is significantly above last year's level. Given the good export figures and rising prices, slaughterhouses there can apparently make good use of the pigs.
Graph: France slaughter figures
