Ohio Ag Connection - Ohio Hog Inventory Up 150,000 Head

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Ohio Hog Inventory Up 150,000 Head
Ohio Ag Connection - 06/29/2020

Ohio's total hog and pig inventory on June 1 was estimated at 2.90 million head, up 150,000 head from a year ago, according to Cheryl Turner, state statistician of the USDA, NASS, Ohio Field Office. Breeding hog inventory, at 210,000 head, was up 10,000 from last June. Market hog inventory, at 2.69 million head, was up 5 percent from last year. The average pigs saved per litter for the March to May quarter was 11.10, compared to 11.20 from the same period last year.

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on June 1, 2020 was 79.6 million head. This was up 5 percent from June 1, 2019, and up 3 percent from March 1, 2020. Breeding inventory, at 6.33 million head, was down 1 percent from last year, and down 1 percent from the previous quarter. Market hog inventory, at 73.3 million head, was up 6 percent from last year, and up 3 percent from last quarter.

The March-May 2020 pig crop, at 34.9 million head, was up 1 percent from 2019. Sows farrowing during this period totaled 3.17 million head, up 1 percent from 2019. The sows farrowed during this quarter represented 50 percent of the breeding herd. The average pigs saved per litter was a record high of 11.01 for the March-May period, compared to 11.00 last year.

United States hog producers intend to have 3.12 million sows farrow during the June-August 2020 quarter, down 5 percent from the actual farrowings during the same period one year earlier, and down 2 percent from the same period two years earlier. Intended farrowings for September-November 2020, at 3.09 million sows, are down 5 percent from the same period one year earlier, and down 4 percent from the same period two years earlier.

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