Over the past twelve months, the US pig population has grown significantly.

In the summer of 2019, pigs.

This is 2.65 million. However, this increase was solely due to American farmers who increased their stocks by 2.65 million pigs or by 3.6% to 75.52 million. On the other hand, among their professional colleagues in Canada, livestock stagnated at 13.95 million pigs.

The number of breeding pigs, which is important for the further development of production, grew only below the average in both countries by 1.0% to 7.64 million sows.

Differences were also noted here: while pig farmers in the USA increased their stock by about 90 thousand heads or by 1.4% to 6.41 million, in Canada the number of pigs increased by 17 thousand or 1.4% up to 1.23 million sows.

However, as piglet production continues to grow, it is expected that the volume of pork on the other side of the Atlantic will increase markedly this year. For its country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture expects a 5% increase to 12.53 million tons compared to 2018.