The pig population in Austria are growing

This summer, animal keepers in Austria increased their pig herds compared to the previous year's survey. As Statistics Austria announced last Friday, a total of 2.73 million pigs were kept in the Alpine country on June 1st; that was 39,330 animals or 1.5% more than twelve months earlier. The last time the pig population was higher in a summer census in 2015. The main reason for the increase was the larger number of fattening pigs, which was increased by 3.1% to 1.08 million units within a year. Piglet numbers are growing, sow numbers are stagnating In addition, the number of piglets and runners weighing less than 50 kg increased by 0.5% to 1.42 million animals. On ...