Brazil’s Q2 slaughter rate shows 10% decline
18/09/2015
As in North America, packers have taken some consolation from the fact that animal weights are on the increase, with average carcase weights of 241.8 kilos, 2.6% higher than the average 12 months ago. This is of less help to tanners, naturally.
In Mato Grosso, the kill declined by more than 200,000 head, year on year, while the corresponding volume for Mato Grosso do Sul was more than 160,000. Goiás and São Paulo each slaughtered 130,000 fewer cattle, while Minas Gerais’s total was down by more than 80,000 and Paraná’s by close to 60,000.
In contrast there were increases in some states, although not enough to compensate the losses in these major cattle-raising regions of Brazil. Abattoirs in the northern state of Pará, for example, had a slaughter rate in the second quarter that was almost 40,000 head up on the corresponding figure for 2014 and Rio de Janeiro had an increase of just over 10,000 head.
The figures come from Brazil’s national statistics institute, IBGE.
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