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Pig production in France: update in 2011

Jean-Bernard HERIN

PART ONE TITLEFrench pig production

• 75% of French pigs produced in Western part of France:– Brittany– Normandy– Pays de Loire

PART ONE TITLEPig production in France (in thousands)

25 139

25 624

26 04225 718

26 193

1 159

1 184

1 198

1 234

1 264

20000

21000

22000

23000

24000

25000

26000

27000

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

années

nb

of

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ing

pig

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1100

1120

1140

1160

1180

1200

1220

1240

1260

1280

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of

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ws

Fattening pigs Number of sows

year

PART ONE TITLEFrench pig industry

• Sows: 1.16 Millions • Average size of the farms: 200 sows• Farrow to finish / “collective” farrowing units/large

FTF farms• Free from AD disease• Only EU PRRS strains• Batch management + All in/All out• “GTTT”: reproduction performance recording and

analysis system • Reproduction performances recorded and

processed locally and globally

PART ONE TITLEFrench pig industry

• Brittany + Pays de Loire + Normandy = 76%

• Rest of France = 24%• Brittany only > 50%

PRRS +(70-80%)

PRRS -

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27M pigletsproduced in France

18M piglets produced in farrow-to-finish

farms

9M piglets produced on other sites

3.6M 25-kg pigletsproduced by farmers

(integrated units)

5.4M piglets sold at 8kg BW

2.7M surplus piglets sold by farmers

2.7M piglets sold by collective

breeding farms

PART ONE TITLEPig production organization

• 90% of pig farmers are members of cooperatives or farmer groups.Several mergers occurred

for 2 years …

Group/Coop Pigs sold /year

COOPERL AA 6 000 000 24%

AVELTIS 3 000 000 12%

PRESTOR GROUPE CECAB

2 500 000 10%

TRISKALIA 1 700 000 7%

PORC ARMOR 1 600 000 6%

CIRHYO 1 000 000 4%

14.100 pig farmers6.000 specialized pig farmers1.200 F to W producers5.800 F to F producers6.400 fatteners60 cooperatives or farmer groups

PART ONE TITLEAverage number of productive sows / farm

¾ of herds < 200 sows

Nb of sows

% of farms

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22,5 2324,3

25,526,2

2728,4

17,718,3

19,220 20,320,6

21,222,4

17

19

21

23

25

27

29

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Weaned piglets/prod sow Pig produced/ sow /year

Evolution of productivity results (GTTT GTE)

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7 653 000 metric tons (T) of compound pig feed

25%1 913 000 T

farm feed mix

75%5 740 000 T

compound feed

70% cooperative feedmills 30% private feedmills

• COOPERL • TRISKALIA NUTREA TERRENA• LE GOUESSANT• Technor Sofac• AGRIAL• ALIOUEST

• SANDERS

SOURCE COOP DE France RAPPORT 2010

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PART ONE TITLEDistribution channels of pork meat in France

(% of tons)

(% of tons)

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