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September UK clean pig slaughterings down year on year, as sow throughput soars
0Having trended well above year-earlier figures for the first eight months of the year, September UK clean pig slaughterings were down 1.1% on September 2025 at 890,000 head, the latest Defra update shows. Throughput in the year to September remains 2.4% higher year on year at 7.9m head, despite the September dip, according to AHDB’s summary of Defra’s data. While GB slaughterings in September were slightly higher year on year, the reduction has been driven by Northern Ireland, where there was a 9.5% reduction to 153,000 head. In the year to date, GB slaughterings are 3.8% up year on year…