News Releases - Agriculture - 3 quarter

In the 3 ^rd quarter 2009 meat production and milk collection decreased (by 6.9% and 2.8%, respectively). 138 488 tonnes of meat in carcass weight were produced in total. This amount included 49.7% of pig meat, 13.4% of beef incl. veal and 36.9% of poultry meat.
Slaughter and meat production

In the 3 ^rd quarter 2009 numbers of cattle slaughtered incl. calves decreased by 4.2% y-o-y. Numbers of bulls slaughtered went down by 16.5% whereas numbers of cows and heifers slaughtered increased (by 7.2% and 7.0%, respectively). Average carcass weight of cattle went down by 2.2% to 285.0 kg. As a result, beef production inc. veal decreased by 6.3%% y-o-y.

Numbers of pigs slaughtered went down by 11.4% y-o-y, while their average carcass weight increased by 0.7% to 87.2 kg. Production of pig meat declined by 10.7% y-o-y.

Production of poultry meat dropped by 1.4% y-o-y.


Outputs of cattle, pigs and poultry rearing

According to the livestock outputs, cattle numbers increased by 0.7% to 1 424 thousand heads as at 30 June 2009 y-o-y. Cow numbers went up by 2.4% to 578 thousand heads, of which dairy cows dropped by 0.7% to 401 thousand heads. On the contrary number of suckler cows rose by 10.2% to 177 thousand heads y-o-y.

Pig numbers went down by 9.4% to 2 130 thousand heads, of which sow and gilt numbers dropped (by 16.0% to 139 thousand heads and 14.9% to 56 thousand heads, respectively) as at 1 August 2009.

Poultry numbers went up by 2.1% to 26 million heads as at 30 June 2009.


Agricultural producers’ prices of cattle, pigs and chicken for slaughter

Agricultural producers’ prices of cattle for slaughter increased for bulls and calves y-o-y (by 1.3% and 6,4%, respectively). On the other hand prices of heifers and cows for slaughter declined y-o-y (by 3.8% and 3.1%, respectively). In the 3 ^rd quarter 2009 average price of bulls for slaughter in S, E, U-quality reached CZK 39.56 per kilogram in live weight and CZK 74.52 per kilogram in carcass weight.

Agricultural producers’ prices of pigs for slaughter went down by 3.4% y-o-y. Average price of pigs for slaughter in S, E, U-quality totalled CZK 31.53 per kilogram in live weight and CZK 40.84 per kilogram in carcass weight.

Prices of agricultural producers of chicken for slaughter in the 1st-quality category decreased by 9.6% y-o-y and amounted to CZK 20.68 per kilogram in live weight.


Foreign trade in meat and livestock

According to preliminary outputs, foreign trade ¹⁾ in meat ended in a passive trade balance for beef, pig meat and poultry meat in the period from the 1st June 2009 to the 31st August 2009 (by 3 487 tonnes, by 35 870 tonnes and 11 345 tonnes, respectively).

Beef imports went up by 13.4% (by 561 tonnes) y-o-y, while exports decreased by 7.8% (by 106 tonnes). Beef was imported predominantly from Poland (44%) and to a lesser extent from Germany (20%, Austria (12%) and Ireland (10%). Exports went to Slovakia (37%), Austria (20%), the Netherlands (17%) and Poland (16%).

Imports of pig meat went up by 19.3% (by 7 216 tonnes) and exports increased by 3.3% (by 281 tonnes) y-o-y. Almost a half of pig meat imported came from Germany (45%), a lesser amount was imported from Austria (10%), Spain (9%) and Poland (9%). Majority of export went to Slovakia (90%).

Imports of poultry meat went up by 22.1% (by 3 172 tonnes) and exports increased by 7.3% (by 420 tonnes) y-o-y. Poultry meat was imported largely from Poland (43%) and to a lesser extent from Brazil (19%), Slovakia (12%) and France (7%). Meat was exported predominantly to Slovakia (36%), to a lesser amount to Germany (18%) and Hungary (17%).

Foreign trade ¹⁾ in live animals ended in an active trade balance for cattle (12 032 tonnes) and poultry (7 830 tonnes). On the other hand foreign trade in live pigs ended in a passive trade balance (5 802 tonnes).

Imports of live cattle went down by 13.0% (by 67 tonnes) whereas exports went up by 21.9% (by 2 243 tonnes) y-o-y. Cattle were imported largely from Slovakia (95%), exports went predominantly to Austria (55%) and to a lesser extent to Germany (12%) and Croatia (7%).

Imports of live pigs increased by 71.0% (by 3 303 tonnes) whereas exports decreased by 28.1% (by 839 tonnes) y-o-y. Pigs were imported largely from Germany (45%), the Netherlands (22%) and Denmark (22%). Pig exports were destined predominantly for Slovakia (50%), Austria (25%) and Hungary (24%).

Imports in live poultry increased by 43.3% (by 581 tonnes) and exports went up by 7.1% (by 647 tonnes) y-o-y. Live poultry were imported predominantly from Slovakia (72%) and Germany (24%), exports went to Germany (50%), Poland (28%) and Slovakia (18%).


Milk collection and agricultural producers’ prices of milk

Milk collected to dairies stood at 579.3 million litres in the 3rd quarter 2009. Milk collection went down by 2.8% compared to the same period of the previous year.

Agricultural producers’ price of milk in the Q-quality dropped by 27.7% y-o-y. The average price of milk amounted to CZK 5.95 per litre.


Foreign trade in milk and milk products

Foreign trade ¹⁾ in milk and milk products ended in active trade balance (150.3 thousand tonnes) in the period from the 1st June 2009 to the 31st August 2009 due to a high amount of raw milk exports (incl. cream). Imports of milk and milk products went down by 2.6% (by 1.8 thousand tonnes), exports increased by 1.2% (by 2.6 thousand tonnes) y-o-y. Milk and milk products were imported predominantly from Poland (32%), Slovakia (29%), Germany (29%) and exported largely to Germany (57%) and to a lesser extent to Slovakia (13%), Italy (10%) and Hungary (8%).

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^{1 )} For Intra-Community trade excl. data under Intrastat statistics threshold (annual value of goods: CZK 2 mil. for receipt, CZK 4 mil. for dispatch). The threshold values have been raised as of 1 January 2009 to CZK 8 mil. for both dispatched and arrived goods. However, the providers of statistical information, who exceeded the exemption threshold 2 or 4 millions CZK in 2008 are obliged to continue declaring Intrastat data in 2009 as well.

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Methodical note:
Contact person: Jiří Hrbek, phone 27405 2331, e-ma il: jiri.hrbek@csu.gov.cz
Source: full survey on livestock slaughter carried out by the Czech Statistical Office, Agricultural Producer Price Indices in September 2009 (CZSO).
Milk collection and purchase of poultry – survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Date of completing data collection: 9 September 2009
Date of completing data processing: 26 September 2009
Published data are final with exception of foreign trade data.
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