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. 2016 Jan;58:35–48. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.11.001

Table A6.

EU pork production statistic: summary of data listed in Tables A3, A5, and A7 in the electronic supplementary material. These statistics are based on a weighted mean of production statistics from 12 EU member states (representing >92.9% of EU industrial pork production) and representative diets from 5 EU member states (>64% of EU industrial pork production). Dietary ingredients do not sum to 100% because feed ingredients can belong to multiple groups (e.g. wheat bran is both a cereal and a co-product).

Summary statistics from Tables A3, A5, and A7 Value
EU industrial pork production statistics
Weight at slaughter (kg) 114.8
Feed conversion ratio (kg feed/kg pig produced) 2.83
Piglets weaned/sow/year 25.1
Ratio sows:slaughter pigs 1:23.6



EU industrial pork diet ingredients in percent (standard deviation)
Cereals (e.g. oats, corn, wheat) 71.4 (±8.5)
Soybean meal 9.5 (±1.6)
Agricultural co-products (excluding soybean meal, e.g. rapeseed meal, wheat bran, molasses) 14.8 (±5.3)
Vitamin and mineral supplements 3.0 (±1.0)
Other (e.g. peas, cassava, amino acid supplements) 5.0 (±6.0)