
UK July pig production reaches 20-year high
Clean pig slaughterings in the United Kingdom reached 964,000 head in July 2020.


Clean pig slaughterings in the United Kingdom reached 964,000 head in July 2020.

What is causing the increasing shortage of veterinarians in rural and remote areas in Europe? FVE surveyed 28 countries.

Swine production and slaughter will hit record lows in 2020 as ASF continues to impact China’s hog industry. However, the supply decline will bottom out in 2020, and 2021 beginning hog and sow inventories will be up.

An African swine fever pre-emptive zoning arrangement has been formalized between Australia and its largest export market, Singapore.

These are five wild boars found in the Oder-Spree district.

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The tripartite statement on the pandemic risk of swine influenza calls for surveillance and data sharing.

Infected, surveillance, and buffer zones have been established along with restriction measures for each zone.There are 18 farms in the core and surveillance zones.

Continued strong exports of EU pork and wheat helped to mitigate trade challenges in the first five months of 2020.

China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Argentina, First countries to close their borders to German pork after the confirmation of ASF.

This is another important turning point for the recovery of live pig production capacity following the year-on-year growth in the breeding sow census in June.



It is a wild boar found dead in Brandenburg, specifically in the Spree-Neisse district.

Today, the EU and China signed a bilateral agreement to protect 100 European Geographical Indications (GIs) in China and 100 Chinese GIs in the European Union against usurpation and imitation.

States and regions have met requirements such as improving official veterinary services and implementing a structured program to maintain a disease-free status.

The International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods (ICMSF) has published its scientific opinion: “ICMSF opinion on SARS-CoV-2 and its relationship to food safety”.

During the Informal Meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers, the Minister's initiative for an EU-wide animal welfare label met with broad support.

June exports of U.S. pork fell below year-ago levels for the first time in 2020, but exports remain on record pace for the year, according to USDA data compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Over the past six years, Russia has reduced its food imports by a third - from $43.3 billion in 2013 to $30 billion in 2019. Pork imports have shrunk tenfold.


Singapore, already a major importer of Brazilian pork, increased its purchases in 2020.

Between January and June the EU has exported 2,936,271 tonnes of pork.

The working group, North American Swine Health, was created by health authorities from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, in collaboration with the meat industry in each of the countries.

ASF suspected in wild boar carcass found in Brandenburg.

Following a reduced forecast of the 2020/21 maize harvest that led to an increase of US maize prices, the import duty for maize, sorghum and rye in the European Union is now set at €0 per tonne as of 27 August 2020.

The aim is for veterinarians and producers to properly administer medications to both terrestrial and aquatic animals for consumption.

