At the beginning of July 2008, there were 12.35million pigs in Denmark, a 9.5% year on year decrease from the same month in 2007. The number of sows was around 8.5% lower than in July 2007. However, since Spring 2008, the number of sows has remained constant.

 

Meanwhile, the Netherlands has seen a reduction in the number of sows. In April 2007 there were 1.15 million sows in the Netherlands, opne year later this number has fallen to 1.07 million.

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