EU produces less bovine meat in 2023
Production was down 255 000 tonnes over 2022
22 October 2024
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By: The European Union produced a provisional 6.4 million tonnes of bovine meat (beef and veal carcasses) in 2023, which was about 255 000 tonnes less than in 2022 (equivalent to decline of 3.8%), according to a recent market report from the European Commission.
This downturn in production for a fifth consecutive year has now offset the higher production that came after the end of milk quotas on 31 March 2015 and the associated rise in cow slaughter as some of the smallest farms abandoned dairy production.
Slightly more than three-quarters of the EU's beef in 2023 (see Figure 5) was produced in six countries: France (20.7%), Germany (17.3%), Ireland (10.9%), Italy (9.7%), Poland (9.3%) and Spain (9.1%).
Slightly more than three-quarters of the EU's veal meat was produced in four countries: the Netherlands (27.5%), Spain (21.9%), France (18.3%) and Italy (9.6%).
