They project that the beef stock of Uruguay will grow in 2022/23

Faxmeat | The drastic drop in slaughter and the expectation that last spring's calving was good change the evolution of the bovine stock in the current financial year 2022/23. After the decline in 2021/22, the initial projections are for a recovery of the herd that would be of the order of 200,000 animals. In 2021/22, thanks to the record of more than 2.7 million animals slaughtered, the herd fell by some 373 thousand heads to 11.54 million. In 2022/23, with two thirds of the agricultural year elapsed, everything indicates that the slaughter will drop to around 2.2 million head, an impressive decrease of 500 thousand head between one year and the next. In addition, the expectations are of a good calving last spring. The data from the INIA Pregnancy Workshop last year was a rate of 80%, the highest since this activity was carried out. Even though between pregnancy and weaning this year the reduction may be somewhat greater than usual, in any case the calves that will be counted at ...