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Our global farm data sets
We manage a unique global data base of typical farms and production systems for sows and rearing as well as pig finishing. The data cover capital inputs (machines, buildings, equipment) performance), labour organisation and input, land use, crop operations, animal numbers, their performance, feed rations, overhead and finance cost on whole-farm level as well as and variable costs on enterprise level. This allows a total returns, cost and profitability analysis. Data is updated annually and not older than 1 year.
Example charts from the Result Data Base
Watch an explanatory video about the content and the functionality of the Result Data Bases. Please note that the example is for beef finishing but the structure and functionality is the same for pig.
Here you find a short written explanation how to use the tool with the trade data.
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Sector data
You look for information how pig inventories, production and consumption in individual countries developed? You would like to know how trade volumes and values as well as key pig and piglet prices developed? We are collecting these data though our network partners and UNComtrade for more than 20 countries. Data are updated every year and information for the majority of the countries is not older than one year (depending on data availability). Easy-to-handle tools are provided for the entire data sets of pig. Below are some illustrations.
Time series of inventories, production and consumption
Data are from national statistics in our partner countries and comprise inventories of total pigs, sows and finishers. They are added by slaughter numbers (head and tons) as well as total consumption, per capita consumption and total exports and imports in terms of quantities and USD-values.
Example: Spain
Time series of prices for pig and piglets
Data are from national statistic of the partner countries. They comprise prices for the most important categories of slaughter pigs and piglets.
Example: Germany
Watch a video about the content and functionality of the tool for the trade data. Please note that the example is for beef finishing but the structure and functionality is the same for pig.
Here you find a short written explanation how to use the tool with the trade data.
Download (pdf-Document, 118 KB)
Tailormade studies
The agri benchmark Pig Network and data infrastructure are used for specific projects, and projects are used to provide new data to the network. The studies center around the topics of competitiveness, environment, animal welfare, agricultural and trade politics. Customers are (inter)national project donors and companies.
Below is a list of ongoing and finished projects.
Betriebswirtschaftliche Auswirkungen des Verzichts auf das Schwänzekupieren in der Schweinehaltung (Masterarbeit Henning Meiners, 2024, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Aluwe M, Backus G, Bee G, Bonneau M, Borell E von, Candek-Potokar M, Doran O, Font-i-Furnols M, Larzul C, Skrlep M, Tomasevic I, Tudoreanu L, Verhaagh M, Weiler U (2019)
Fact sheet: Pork production with entire males : CA15215, Innovative approaches in pork production with entire males. COST, 4 p
Aluwe M, Backus G, Bee G, Bonneau M, Borell E von, Candek-Potokar M, Doran O, Font-i-Furnols M, Larzul C, Skrlep M, Tomasevic I, Tudoreanu L, Verhaagh M, Weiler U (2019)
Fact sheet: Pork production with immunocastrates : CA15215, Innovative approaches in pork production with entire males. COST, 5 p
Entwicklung eines Konzepts zur Analyse des produktspezifischen Außenhandels von Schweinefleisch und Schlachtnebenerzeugnissen am Beispiel Deutschlands (Masterarbeit von Sophia Krone, 2017, Georg-August Universität Göttingen)
Publications
Our publications cover annual reports, scientific papers, theses and presentations. Please find below a selection of the most important publications.
Annual Pig Reports
Scientific papers and publications
Asanger S, Verhaagh M, Zablotski Y, Gumbert S, Ritzmann M, Zöls S (2025) Carcass quality of immunocastrated boars – a retrospective analysis of slaughterhouse data. Meat Sci 225:109826, DOI:10.1016/j.meatsci.2025.109826
Verhaagh M (2024) Betriebswirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Alternativen zur betäubungslosen Ferkelkastration. Göttingen: Univ Göttingen, 187 p, Göttingen, Univ, Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften, Diss, 2024, DOI:10.53846/goediss-10907
Verhaagh M (2024) Comparison of the competitiveness for Danish, Dutch, and German piglet producers under consideration of country-specific methods of piglet castration with anesthesia. Agriculture 14(11):1943, DOI:10.3390/agriculture14111943
Kress K, Verhaagh M (2019) The economic impact of German pig carcass pricing systems and risk scenarios for boar taint on the profitability of pork production with immunocastrates and boars. Agriculture 9(9):204, DOI:10.3390/agriculture9090204
Other publications
Deblitz C, Rohlmann C, Verhaagh M, Krause M, Hartmann W (2024) Berechnung der einzelbetrieblichen Kosten einer Teilnahme am Bundesprogramm zur Förderung des Umbaus der Tierhaltung in der Schweinehaltung. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 36 p, Thünen Working Paper 233, (only in German language) DOI:10.3220/WP1708069947000
Deblitz C, Efken J, Banse M, Isermeyer F, Rohlmann C, Tergast HT, Thobe P, Verhaagh M (2021) Politikfolgenabschätzung zu den Empfehlungen des Kompetenznetzwerks Nutztierhaltung. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 191 p, Thünen Working Paper 173, (only in German language) DOI:10.3220/WP1619424590000
Verhaagh M, Deblitz C (2019) Wirtschaftlichkeit der Alternativen zur betäubungslosen Ferkelkastration – Aktualisierung und Erweiterung der betriebswirtschaftlichen Berechnungen. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 56 p, Thünen Working Paper 110, (only in German language) DOI:10.3220/WP1542016654000
agri benchmark Pig Network: Briefing Paper 2017/2: Economic Effects of Alternatives to Piglet Castration without Anesthesia in Germany (only in German language, pdf-document, 1 MB), published in German as Thünen Working Paper 64: Betriebswirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Alternativen zur betäubungslosen Ferkelkastration in Deutschland (only in German language, pdf-document, 488 KB)
Pig Network: Briefing Paper 2017/1 The pig industry’s transition to group sow housing: economic and welfare assessments
(pdf-document, 819 KB)
