As of Dec. 1, there were 345,000 hogs and pigs on Wisconsin farms, according to the latest USDA,
National Agricultural Statistics Service report. This number is down 5 percent from December 2021’s 365,000 head.
Breeding hogs accounted for 51,000 head of the total inventory, while market hogs totaled 294,000 head.
The annual pig crop was 1.06 million head, down slightly from last year, resulting from 92,000 sows farrowed during the December 2021-November 2022 period. The average pigs saved per litter was 11.50 for the year, up 1 percent from last year.
Looking at national inventory — the Dec. 1 numbers put U.S. hogs and pigs at 73.1 million head, down 2 percent from December 2021, and down 1 percent from Sep. 1.
Breeding inventory, at 6.15 million head, was up slightly from last year, and up slightly from the previous quarter. Market hog inventory, at 67.0 million head, was down 2 percent from last year, and down 1 percent from last quarter.
The September-November 2022 pig crop, at 33.7 million head, was down 1 percent from 2021. Sows farrowing during this period totaled 3.00 million head, down 1 percent from 2021. The sows farrowed during this quarter represented 49 percent of the breeding herd. The average pigs saved per litter was 11.22 for the September-November period, compared to 11.19 last year.
U.S. hog producers intend to have 2.95 million sows farrow during the December 2022-February 2023 quarter, up 1 percent from the actual farrowings during the same period one year earlier, and up 1 percent from the same period two years earlier.
Intended farrowings for March-May 2023, at 2.98 million sows, are up slightly from the same period one year earlier, but down 2 percent from the same period two years earlier.
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