Slaughter rates down
30/03/2009
Brazil’s cattle slaughter rates fell by 6.6% in 2008 compared to the year before.
Last year a total of 28.6 million cattle went to slaughter with April the only month in which the 2008 figure was higher than the year before. There were especially steep drops in March (16.1%), November (14.8%) and December (10%). The sharpest drop of all was in the slaughter of calves, which fell by 49.6% last year compared to 2007.
The figures for hides going into the leather pipeline from the Brazilian beef industry last year showed a reduction of 12.8%. Almost 36.4 million hides came onto the market from Brazilian packer companies last year; the total for 2007 was 41.7 million. There is a discrepancy between the number of slaughtered cattle and the number of hides sold because some of those hides were from cattle that had been slaughtered in the previous year.
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