Germany: Meat production increased by 1.3 percent in the first half of 2024

According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this was 1.3% more than in the same period last year. In total, 24 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses as well as 344.3 million chickens, turkeys and ducks were slaughtered in slaughterhouses in the first half of 2024. For the first time since 2016, pork production increased slightly in the first half of the year. In the first six months of the year, farms in Germany slaughtered 21.9 million pigs. This represents a slight increase of 0.4% (78,100 animals) compared to the previous year. 96.6% of these pigs (21.2 million) are of domestic origin. Here, too, there was an increase of 0.4% or 86,600 animals compared to the previous year. 734,000 pigs of foreign origin were slaughtered in the first half of the year. This corresponds to a decrease of 1.1% compared to the same period last year. The share of pigs of foreign origin in the total number of pigs slaughtered was 3.4% in the first half of 2024. The amount of pork ...