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News Archive
US: NPPC puts pressure on Congress to fix estate tax law
02 Dec 2010 - Saying U.S. pork producers and other farmers deserve more for their hard work than to be 'taxed in death, to death,' the National Pork Producers Council urged Congress to fix the estate tax law. Read more >>
New Zealand: New code of welfare for pigs released
02 Dec 2010 - The Animal Welfare (Pigs) Code of Welfare 2010, released by the Minister of Agriculture, encourages all those responsible for pigs to adopt the highest standards of husbandry, care and handling. Read more >>
Growth stagnation in Danish live pig exports
01 Dec 2010 - The growth of Danish live weaner and finisher exports will come to a standstill in 2010 and 2011, agricultural marketing bureau AMI said based on figures of the Danish sector organisation LF.
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Cargill exceeds 2009 Chicago Climate Exchange greenhouse gas emission reduction targets
01 Dec 2010 - Cargill has exceeded the Chicago Climate Exchange's (CCX) required 5-percent greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction target for calendar year 2009 (the latest reporting year for which the data has been verified). Cargill reduced its GHG emissions at its U.S. facilities by 12 percent.
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Governments of Canada and Quebec invest millions in agricultural sector
01 Dec 2010 - The Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of State (Agriculture), Jean-Pierre Blackburn, and the Ministre de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation and Ministre d'Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire, Laurent Lessard, are pleased to announce an investment of nearly $60 million spread over four years.
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Make the most of Christmas marketing – says pig breeding company
01 Dec 2010 - Pig finishers should now be thinking about their marketing strategy over Christmas. With high feed costs and lower pig prices, it is important to optimise returns by planning ahead, advises Matthew Curtis, managing director of Yorkshire, UK-based pig-breeding company ACMC.
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France: Many pork producers may go bust
30 Nov 2010 - It is said that approximately a third of the pork producers in Brittany will quit its business before summer 2011. Read more >>
DEFRA: Food industry agree new Labelling Standards Code
30 Nov 2010 - Food and Farming Minister Jim Paice welcomed news that will make British consumers the best informed in Europe. Read more >>
Netherlands: Total number of pigs up again
30 Nov 2010 - Although the total number of farms in the Netherlands is down, the total number of pigs has grown for the sixth time in a row. Economics of scale is the trend, Dutch agricultural newspaper Agrarisch Dagblad writes. Read more >>
South Korea: Foot-and-Mouth disease found
30 Nov 2010 - According Seoul's Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries this week, local farms in South Korea were discovered to have Foot-and-Mouth disease present. Read more >>
UK committee: Cloned meat is safe
29 Nov 2010 - A UK subcommittee of the Food Safety Authority (FSA) in the United Kingdom has said that cloned meat is safe.
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Pork processor Danish Crown posts best results ever
29 Nov 2010 - The results for the year presented by Danish Crown clearly demonstrate the strong position of the group. The net profit for the year is DKK1.648 billion (€221 million) against DKK1.164 billion (€165 million) last year.
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Australian pig farmers promise to abandon stalls by 2017
29 Nov 2010 - Australia's pork producers have agreed to voluntarily phase out sow gestation stalls by 2017, ABC rural reported.
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Russia ends ban on Tyson pork plant in Iowa
29 Nov 2010 - The Russian Federation ended a ban on pork imports from a Tyson Foods plant in Iowa, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported.
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Chinese-European pig summit: Different markets, different focus
29 Nov 2010 - Expert insights into the changes and challenges facing pig production in China and Europe have been presented to an international audience at the EuroTier exhibition held in Hanover, Germany 16-19 November 2010. Read more >>
Research: Selection for quick growth leads to animal disease
26 Nov 2010 - Livestock animals have been selected for growing rapidly, but this will be at the expense of natural immunity against diseases, Dutch researchers say. Read more >>
Russia reports another outbreak of African Swine Fever
26 Nov 2010 - Another outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) has occurred in Kuban, said speakers at a meeting of the Krasnodar territorial emergency situations commission, last Thursday. Read more >>
Classical Swine Fever outbreak in Serbia
26 Nov 2010 - An outbreak of Classical Swine Fever (CSF) has been reported in Serbia – 155 pigs died in this outbreak. Read more >>
USDA - better measures to reduce antibiotic use
25 Nov 2010 - The USDA needs to take more steps to strengthen measures to reduce the “overuse of antibiotics” in livestock production. This is according to House Rules Committee Chair Louise Slaughter in a letter to Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack. Read more >>
AFIA fears job losses with new GIPSA rules
25 Nov 2010 - US Department of Agriculture’s proposed rules on how the meat processing industry contracts with farmers and ranchers by far exceeds the intent of Congress, the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) said in comments filed on the Grain Inspection Packers & Stockyards Act (GIPSA). Read more >>
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