date:Apr 18, 2014
2.2 per cent from January 2013-thus for January 2014, a total of 436.96 million head. Calculations by either way means a large drop in on farm pig inventory reported for January 2014.
Now if we take an average for January 2014 of 438.2 million on farm inventory and we calculate the sow herd at 50.0 million, then February, 2014 inventory would be 433.03 million head ( down 0.9 per cent from last month and down 1.1 per cent from last year). Breeding stock would be 49.6 million sows (down 0.8 per