Quarterly Livestock Surveys
Animal slaughter, production of eggs and milk acquisition grow in Q2
August 13, 2025 09h00 AM | Last Updated: August 13, 2025 12h01 PM
Slaughter of cattle, hogs and pigs, and chicken grew in the second quarter of 2025, both compared to the second quarter of 2024 and the first quarter of 2025. The production of hen eggs and milk acquisition also increased in both comparisons. On the other hand, leather acquisition rose against the second quarter of 2024, but was the only activity with a drop compared to the first quarter of 2025.
Released today (13) by the IBGE, the information is part of the first results of the Livestock Statistics. Animal slaughtering data and milk acquisition data are collected in establishments under some type of health inspection (municipal, state or federal).
Cattle slaughter grew 3.3% in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the same period of 2024, and 5.4% compared to the first quarter of 2025, reaching 10.40 million head. This result represents 2.63 million tonnes of cattle carcasses, a 1.0% growth compared to the second quarter of 2024 and 6.0% over the first quarter of 2025.
On the other hand, slaughter of hogs and pigs added up to 14.87 million head in the second quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.6% compared to the second quarter of 2024 and of 3.8% compared to the first quarter of 2025. Carcasses added up to 1.40 million tonnes, up 4.7% compared to the second quarter of 2024 and 6.1% compared to the first quarter of 2025.
Regarding chicken, 1.64 billion head were slaughtered in the second quarter of 2025. This result represents a 1.1% increase compared to the second quarter of 2024 and stability (0.0%) compared to the first quarter of 2025. The cumulative weight of carcasses was 3.56 million tonnes, equivalent to a growth of 2.7% compared to the second quarter of 2024 and of 2.4% compared to the first quarter of 2025.
Acquisition of raw milk grows 9.3% compared to the second quarter of 2024
Acquisition of raw milk amounted to 6.50 billion liters in the second quarter of 2025. The amount corresponds to an increase of 9.3% compared to the second quarter of 2024 and of 0.1% compared to the first quarter of 2025.
The tanneries received 10.55 million whole pieces of raw hide in the second quarter of 2025. This amount indicates a rise of 2.6% compared to the second quarter of 2024, but represents a drop of 1.9% compared to the first quarter of 2025. The data come from facilities that make a tan of at least 5,000 whole pieces of raw hide per year.
The production of hen eggs amounted to 1.22 billion dozen in the second quarter of 2025; a 4.0% increase compared to the second quarter of 2024 and 1.6% compared to the first quarter of 2025.
More about the survey
On a quarterly basis, the IBGE carries out the official statistical surveys of the agricultural scenario, which are the Quarterly Survey of Animal Slaughter, Quarterly Survey of Milk, Quarterly Survey of Leather and Production of Hen Eggs. In order to meet requests from users to quickly access the information of the agricultural scenario, the IBGE began to release the first results of these surveys from the first quarter of 2018 onwards.
The first results will be available nearly one month ahead of the general release of the data in the newspaper IBGE Indicators: Statistics of Livestock Production. The data of the surveys can be accessed on Sidra. The next release of the complete results, related to the second quarter of 2025, will be on September 10.
