History: Reference: Ontario hog industry snapshot — 2024–2026

• 2026-05-14T22:28:48.103Z
  Reference: Ontario hog industry snapshot — 2024–2026
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  Confidence: Verified.

  Sector reference for Ontario pork production as of May 2026. Anchors operational and pricing decisions across the hog customer base.

  Headline

  • ~1,901 pork farms (Ontario Pork / ontariopork.on.ca, 2024).
  • 2025 marketings ≈6.2 million hogs, +7% year-on-year.

  Per Farmtario, "Ontario hog production increases in 2025," quoting Ontario Pork chair Tara Terpstra: "The Ontario pork sector has benefited from a period of strength, and it's been driven by a lot of high prices last year and steady demand for pork."

  County concentration

  • Perth County is Ontario's #1 hog county by marketings. Hogs are Perth's second-largest farm commodity (after dairy) — farm cash receipts north of $161M in baseline 2012 data and materially higher in 2021–2024 (OMAFRA Farm Cash Receipts by County). Estimated for current year; Verified for 2012 baseline.

  Operation types

  Farrow-to-finish, farrow-to-wean, weaner-finisher, and finishing-only operations coexist.

  Processors

  • Conestoga Meats (Breslau).
  • Sofina (Burlington).

  Biosecurity context

  Swine Health Ontario PED/PDCoV tracking documents ongoing biosecurity pressure. A propane run-out during a winter PED outbreak compounds welfare risk materially — operational implication captured in op-livestock-runout-tolerance-by-sector.

  Sources

  Ontario Pork (ontariopork.on.ca, 2024); Farmtario "Ontario hog production increases in 2025"; OMAFRA Farm Cash Receipts by County (data.ontario.ca); Swine Health Ontario.