Baltic processors faced with soaring pork prices Pigmeat prices are rising throughout Europe as a consequence of the ongoing global epidemic of African Swine...
Lithuanian pork producer Vyturys grows in difficult market The Vyturys conglomerate is one of Lithuania’s largest pork producers and has been working hard to reach Western...
ASF update: Large farms in Lithuania and Latvia affected African Swine Fever is starting to cause problems on larger farms in various countries. Reports about outbreaks...
Pork trade ban with Russia may be a lasting one The trade conflict between the European Union (EU) and Russia is likely to become a lasting one, despite the...
ASF reported in village in central Ukraine In a report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been...
Russia expects more ASF in Kaliningrad Russia expects a second wave of African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks to occur close to the border of Kaliningrad...
Baltic states, Poland: change in ASF strategy needed Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland have asked for more possibilities to deal with African Swine Fever (ASF).
ASF in the EU in July: 253 outbreaks The month of July has been the most intensive month so far with regard to outbreaks of African Swine Fever in...
ASF hitting farms, backyard farms in Baltics The first half of August 2015 has seen an unprecedented occurrence of African Swine Fever (ASF) on both farms...
Germany concerned about ASF in Eastern Europe The ongoing reports of African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks in Eastern Europe is worrying pig and pork...
Lithuania to export pork to Hong Kong Lithuania will export pork and beef to Hong Kong, the country’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius recently said.
Belarus bans pork import from Lithuania Belarus has completely banned the import of live pigs and pork from Lithuania after the identification of a new...
EU compensating pork producers The European Commission has announced aid for pork producers who are currently suffering from relatively low pig...
New ASF outbreaks reported in Lithuania Three new outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) have been discovered in wild boar in Lithuania, along the...
Russia finds new pork smuggling channel from the EU The Russian veterinary body Rosselkhoznadzor has found a new illegal pork supply channel from European Union...
Russia accuses Lithuania of illegal pork imports Lithuania is actively trying to conduct pork fraud and falsify documents to supply pork to the Russian market,...
BLOG: Diseases running west There is a somewhat unwanted parallel between North America and Europe at the moment, as in both continents,...
ESVAC data - Antibiotic use dropped 10% The ESVAC data for 2011 showed that in the 20 European countries that reported for 2010 and 2011 that there was...
Baltic States continue to struggle with ASF Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania continue to struggle with outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF). In Latvia, the...
Around the world in 10 pig farms In 2015 Pig Progress visited 10 different farms in various continents. What they have in common is that they had...
How Poland controls African Swine Fever The Polish know it as Afrykański Pomór Świń – African Swine Fever. For about one and a half years, the disease...
2014 in review: PEDv, ASF and consumers It wasn’t too hard to figure out what dominated the Pig Progress headlines in 2014 – two diseases, Porcine...
PED virus could bring Brazil smiles or sadness What do Haitian immigrants and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) virus have in common? They are both new...
Miratorg present in every step of pork production Large steps have been made in the Russian pig industry in the recent years, but few of the companies have...
PEDv, ASF and the winter setting in October has begun – daylight is shortening and winter is upon us in the northern hemisphere. The change of...
Shortage of pork is good news for producers Large-scale import restrictions and a somewhat hampering Russian economy have led to a strong and rapid growth...
Opportunities for Russian pork producers However sad the cause, this week’s one-year food ban announced by the Russian president Putin appears to be good...
African Swine Fever in maps In the last couple of weeks the messages have been tumbling over each other – African Swine Fever seems to have...
Spinning dead wild boars To me the apparent openness of the Polish and Lithuanian veterinary authorities regarding the African Swine...
How dangerous is the African Swine Fever virus? This week I’ve been speaking to various experts in the industry about African Swine Fever (ASF) and whether or...
African Swine Fever in Europe: Big money at stake Many observed it, only a few warned about it – African Swine Fever entering the European Union. Now that the...
Crimea and pig production Is the Crimean crisis good or bad news for pig production? This question has been on my mind for some time while...
The Baltic states still have a long way to go Pork production in the Baltic states have not known a stable development since the fall of the Soviet Union....
Dynamics and investments for pigs in Lithuania The last AgroBalt exhibition, taking place in Siauliai in the North of Lithuania, 7-9 September, was a nice...
Rebuilding after ASF - An on-farm account In July 2014, Rupinskai Farm located in Eastern Lithuania became the first commercial pig farm in the EU to...