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CATTLE

There are 19,560 holdings with a total number of 1,500,923 cattle (dairy cows, cows for calf production, heifers, bulls, steers and calves younger than one year) The number of dairy cows has decreased over a long period of time. However, an increase by 1,500 animals was noted from June 2011 to June 2012. There were 348,500 cows in 5,000 dairy herds with an average of 70 cows per herd. The number of cows for calf production was 192,500 in June 2012 with an average herd size of 17 cows. In total, approximately 392,000 adult cattle and 29,000 calves were slaughtered during 2012, which is a decrease for adult cattle and a slight increase for calves compared to 2011.

PIGS

The total number of pigs was 1,363,000 (Map 2) in June 2012, which represents a decrease compared to 2011. Fattening pigs decreased by 49,500 ani-mals between 2011 and 2012. This corresponds to a decrease of more than 5%. The number of sows and boars has decreased by 11,200 animals or 7% com-pared to 2011. Since 1995, the number of holdings with production of fattening pigs has decreased by 87% or 7,200 holdings and the breeders of piglets have decreased by 90% or 6,100 holdings. About 2,592,000 pigs were slaughtered during 2012. Of these approximately 46,000 were sows.

SHEEP

In June 2012, there were about 9,260 sheep holdings with a total of 296,680 ewes and rams and 313,850 lambs (Map 3). Sheep holdings in Sweden are usu-ally small-scale enterprises but the size has increased somewhat in recent years. During 2011 and 2012 the average herd size was 32 adult sheep.

During 2012, approximately 260,000 sheep were slaughtered of which 225,000 were lambs.

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