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Increase in UK's pork production in August

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UK's pork production increased by 4.5% in August compared to the corresponding month from 2017, reaching 81,800 tonnes, with 947,000 clean pigs slaughtered, according to an AHDB analysis based on data published by Defra.

Posted on Sep 19 ,06:59

Clean pigs slaughtered in August across the UK were 7% higher overall. In Scotland clean pig throughputs increased by 14% in the mentioned period.
Duncan Wyatt, lead analyst at AHDB, said also that sow slaughterings in UK were up by 15% compared to the previous month. Carcase weights picked up slightly to 82.8kgs for clean pigs in August, although sow weights fell slightly.

Between January and August, UK's total pork production reached 614,500 tonnes. Wyatt explained this is a 4.7% increase (27,700 tonnes) compared with the same period last year. Clean pigs continue to be plentiful; year to date slaughter is now over 7 million head, 273,000 more than at the same point in 2017.

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