Agriculture - Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)

(in part provisional figures; retrospective updating will be made)

Specification	Physical or quantity unit	2011
		Jan.	Feb.	March	April	May	June	July	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Total	Average
1) From commercial slaughterings of animals of domestic or foreign origin (cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, goats); including slaughter grease, but excluding offal. - 2) because of methodical changes limited compareable with results of previous year - 3) Poultry meat from slaughterings of domestic poultry in slaughterhouses with a slaughtering capacity of 2,000 animals per month or more. - 4) Eggs produced in holdings or enterprises with at least 3,000 hen keeping places; including pullet eggs and cracked eggs.
Slaughterings
Quantities slaughtered (excl. poultry)1)	t	125,401	155,271	165,805	152,370	153,327	151,448	148,529	163,510	163,028	159,204	165,408	...	...	...
incl.
Cattle total	t	12,659	13,530	15,376	12,814	14,018	12,685	12,250	14,181	14,576	14,295	16,016	...	...	...
incl.
Calves2)	t	1,472	1,551	1,958	1,646	1,629	1,649	1,433	1,514	1,757	1,830	1,781	...	...	...
young cattle	t	17	23	22	20	23	22	21	18	24	20	24	...	...	...
Pigs	t	112,638	141,625	150,288	139,385	139,139	138,624	136,150	149,165	148,284	144,728	149,093	...	...	...
Poultry meat3)	t	64,630	58,968	68,418	61,857	68,835	64,419	63,839	68,141	67,411	64,402	69,504	...	...	...
Egg production4)	1000	269,827	262,561	296,402	289,413	289,173	291,539	301,463	302,126	294,277	301,998	305,825	...	...	...

Specification	Physical or quantity unit	2010
		Jan.	Feb.	March	April	May	June	July	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Total	Average
1) From commercial slaughterings of animals of domestic or foreign origin (cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, goats); including slaughter grease, but excluding offal. - 2) because of methodical changes limited compareable with results of previous year - 3) Poultry meat from slaughterings of domestic poultry in slaughterhouses with a slaughtering capacity of 2,000 animals per month or more. - 4) Eggs produced in holdings or enterprises with at least 3,000 hen keeping places; including pullet eggs and cracked eggs.
Slaughterings
Quantities slaughtered (excl. poultry)1)	t	152,955	131,666	162,513	149,099	140,491	148,907	132,740	159,317	165,047	144,355	163,524	154,598	1,805,212	150,434
incl.
Cattle total	t	16,379	14,478	18,644	15,386	13,173	12,421	9,319	14,622	15,682	15,351	19,030	11,419	175,904	14,659
incl.
Calves2)	t	1,149	1,142	1,704	1,273	1,468	1,519	1,339	1,318	1,487	1,496	1,881	1,622	17,398	1,450
young cattle	t	140	72	155	130	87	17	12	19	26	23	24	22	727	61
Pigs	t	136,485	117,090	143,677	133,583	127,171	136,355	123,292	144,526	149,199	128,823	144,195	142,986	1,627,382	135,615
Poultry meat3)	t	58,150	55,146	66,190	61,396	59,510	64,113	59,471	61,390	63,624	63,042	64,453	65,169	741,654	61,805
Egg production4)	1000	179,873	173,750	187,873	196,890	208,920	201,307	211,813	224,182	231,494	238,685	243,163	255,993	2,553,943	212,829