Livestock Ministry of Ag Reports Hog Inventories by Province China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) recently released provincial level figures for the first quarter of this year for the country’s hog inventories. The top fifteen provinces in China through March accounted for 228.5 million head or 71.1 percent of the national total. With a combined live hog inventory of 321.2 million head, the country’s nationwide total is up 3.5 percent from the first quarter of 2019. Equally important, MARA reports that sow inventories climbed to 33.8 million through the end of Marcy, an improvement of 9.8 percent from the first three months of 2019.
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