EAST LANSING, Mich. — Indiana’s total hog and pig inventory on Sept. 1 was estimated at 4.45 million head, up 100,000 head from a year ago, according to Nathanial Warenski, State Statistician of the USDA, NASS, Indiana Field Office. Breeding hog inventory, at 260,000 head, was up 10,000 from last September. Market hog inventory, at 4.19 million head, was up 2 percent from last year. The average pigs saved per litter in Indiana for the June to August quarter was 11.50, compared to 10.85 from the same period last year.
United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on September 1, 2023 was 74.3 million head. This was up slightly from September 1, 2022, and up 2 percent from June 1, 2023. Breeding inventory, at 6.08 million head, was down 1 percent from last year, and down 1 percent from the previous quarter. Market hog inventory, at 68.2 million head, was up slightly from last year, and up 2 percent from last quarter.
The June-August 2023 pig crop, at 34.2 million head, was up slightly from 2022. Sows farrowing during this period totaled 2.95 million head, down 4 percent from 2022. The sows farrowed during this quarter represented 48 percent of the breeding herd. The average pigs saved per litter was 11.61 for the June-August period, compared to 11.13 last year.
United States hog producers intend to have 2.93 million sows farrow during the September-November 2023 quarter, down 5 percent from the actual farrowings during the same period one year earlier, and down 4 percent from the same period two years earlier. Intended farrowings for December 2023-February 2024, at 2.91 million sows, are down 1 percent from the same period one year earlier, and down slightly from the same period two years earlier.
