A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 4, 2003
Dec. 1 Hog and Pig Inventory 1 Percent Below Year Ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S.
inventory of all hogs and pigs on
Dec. 1, 2002, was 58.9 million
head. This was 1 percent below
Dec. 1,2001, and 2 percent below
September 1, 2002, according to
the National Agricultural Statis
tics Service (NASS).
Breeding inventory, at 6.01
million head, was down 3 percent
from Dec. 1, 2001, and down 1
percent from last quarter.
Market hog inventory, at 52.9
million head, was 1 percent
below last year and 2 percent
below last quarter.
The September-November
2002 U.S. pig crop, at 24.9 mil
lion head, was 2 percent less than
2001, and 1 percent less than
2000. Sows farrowing during this
period totaled 2.82 million head,
2 percent below last year. The
sows farrowed during this quar
ter represented 47 percent of the
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breeding herd. The average pigs
per litter was 8.83 pigs saved per
litter for the September-Novem
ber 2002 period, compared to
8.82 last year. Pigs saved per lit
ter by size of operation ranged
from 7.50 for operations with
1-99 hogs to 9.00 for operations
with more than 5,000 hogs and
pigs.
U.S. hog producers intend to
have 2.81 million sows farrow
during the December
2002-February 2003 quarter, 1
percent below the actual farrow
ings during the same period in
2002 and 2 percent above 2001.
Intended farrowings for March-
May 2003, at 2.85 million sows,
are 3 percent below the same pe
riod in 2002, and 1 percent below
2001.
The number of hog operations
with hogs totaled 75,350 during
2002, down 7 percent from last
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year and 13 percent below 2000.
Places with 2,000 or more hogs
on hand accounted for 10 percent
of the operations and 75 percent
of the inventory. This is the first
time operations with inventories
of more than 2,000 head have
controlled 75 percent or more of
the total inventory.
The number of operations with
over 5,000 head of inventory, at
2,258, accounted for 53 percent
of the total inventory, up from 52
percent a year ago.
The total number of hogs
under contract, owned by these
more-than-5,000-head operations
but raised by contractees, ac
counted for 33 percent of the
total U.S. hog inventory, un
changed from last year.
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pig crop estimates for
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