UK/EU Pig Populations - October 2009
The figures for the November/December 2008 census of pig numbers in EU countries are now complete and are tabulated by Jackie Linden, editor of ThePigSite. There were just over 153 million pigs registered in the EU-27 census, almost seven million fewer than the year previously, and there was a fall of 931,000 in the number of breeding sows to 13.951 million.