- Home
- About Defra
- Science, economics & statistics
- Statistics
- Food & farming
- Food
- Slaughter statistics
ARCHIVE: United Kingdom Slaughter Statistics
Joint Announcement of the Agricultural Departments of the United Kingdom
The latest monthly national statistics produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the slaughter of cattle, sheep and pigs, dressed carcase weights and meat production taken from surveys of slaughterhouses run by the UK Agricultural Departments released on 24 March 2011 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
The latest data relates to February 2011.
The key points from this release are:
- UK monthly slaughter
- UK monthly average dressed carcase weights.
- UK monthly home-killed production of meat.
- UK average weekly slaughter estimates.
- UK slaughterings by country.
Additional tables
UK slaughter statistics – numbers of cattle, sheep and pigs and dressed carcase weights
Please note: UK slaughter statistics dataset now includes slaughtering by country time series.
UK meat production and supplies
Coverage: UK
Geographic Breakdown: Home Countries (slaughterings only)
Next release date: Release calendar
For more information about this release, please e-mail: Sarah.Thompson@defra.gsi.gov.uk or telephone:++44 (0)1904 455097
Page last modified:
24 March, 2011
Page published: 18 March, 2010