USA-Canada Combined Inventory
The combined USA- Canada Swine Inventory for the end of 2013 shows little change from a year ago.
USA – Canada Swine Inventory (Thousands) |
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2007 |
2011 |
2012 |
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Kept for Breeding |
7,712 |
7,022 |
7,025 |
Market |
74,545 |
72,214 |
72,044 |
Canada Swine Inventory January 1 (Thousands) |
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2007 |
2011 |
2012 |
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Kept for Breeding |
1,479 |
1,219 |
1,208 |
Market |
12,601 |
11,566 |
11,513 |
Summary
Less small pigs leaving Canada – fewer Canadian slaughter hogs. Doesn’t seem like the same amount to us, year over year. We still believe there was significant liquidation in Canada small pig movement to USA and Canadian slaughter numbers seem to back this up.Production
Last week in San Diego at the American Swine Veterinarian Association meeting there was a presentation by Darwin Kohler DVM and Chad Bierman PhD on the profitability of pig production. Several traits contributing to the profitability of swine production are of interest to swine geneticists, including feed conversion growth rate, percent survival rate post weaning and non-productive days, litter size, pigs weaned/sow/year and piglet weaning weight. Many of these traits exhibit large variation. Consider the following data (Table 1). This data shows the top and bottom 10% of closeouts on 30 million pigs. The attached values were calculated as: F/C at $3.50 per 0.1 unit, last weight at $0.70/cwt. And mortality at $1.50 per pig per 1% death loss. The total loss value per hog is $50.70 between the top and bottom from these 3 traits.
Table 1: Top & Bottom of closeouts of 30 million pigs |
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Wean-finish |
Bottom 10% |
Top 10% |
Value |
Entry Weight (lbs.) |
11.30 |
14.80 |
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Exit Weight w/o dead (lbs.) |
249.50 |
278.50 |
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Exit Weight with dead (lbs.) |
234.80 |
269.80 |
$24.50 |
Average Daily Gain (lbs.) |
1.39 |
1.66 |
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Feed Conversion Rate |
2.89 |
2.45 |
$15.40 |
Mortality % |
9.20 |
2.40 |
$10.80 |
Categorised in: Pork Commentary
This post was written by Genesus