U.S./Canada: revised Institutional Meat Purchase Specifications to facilitate trade
Based on feedback from stakeholders, the United States and Canada earlier this year agreed to harmonize the terminology used for wholesale meat cuts.
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Belarus suspends certification of pig products intended for the Russian market
Belarus would suspend certification of pig products including chilled pork and frozen offals intended for the Russian market till the 11th of November this year.
Mexico: the SAGARPA opens up new markets for meat products
During the first semester of 2014, the Mexican meat products producers obtained 24 authorisations for the commercialisation of beef, pork and horse meat in 16 African, Asian and American countries.
Pork industry metric used for over 100 years flashes a danger sign!
Just like the emergent molten lava from Mount Kilauea, so an historical metric of the US hog industry, having lay dormant for many years, is creeping ever so slowly over its profit destroying "trigger" level. That metric is the hog corn ratio.
Belarus: measures to restore pork production
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko gave the relevant instructions at the government session held on 22 September to review the measures designed to restore pork production.
United States: pig and sow skin market access restored to China
China is the largest leather producing country in the world and represents a major opportunity to increase the value of U.S. exports of these products.
United States: pork meat surpasses beef in 2015
WASDE raised the commercial pork production forecast for 2015 to 23.9 billion pounds, for the first time exceeds beef output in 62 years.
Firm ground at last?
Europe as a whole has a flat depressive profile with the prices in the minimum levels of the last three years.
Portugal: the number of pig slaughterings increases
During the first semester of 2014 a total of 2,491,870 pigs were slaughtered, and this represents an increase by 1.3%.
France: increase of the deficit in the pork foreign trade
The total exports during the first half of 2014 remained stable: 361,000 tonnes (+ 0.1%).
InterPIG 2013: clear leadership position of the Spanish pig sector
The data confirm the leadership position of the Spanish pig sector regarding the economic results, with a positive economic margin of +€0.09/kg.
European Union: € 39 million support for the promotion of agricultural products
The European Commission has approved 27 programmes to promote agricultural products in the European Union and in third countries.
MEPs prolong Ukraine's duty-free access to the EU market
Plans to prolong a largely duty-free access to the EU market for Ukraine’s exports until the end of 2015 were backed by the European Parliament on Thursday.
France: Commission proposes €918,000 to support former workers of GAD abattoirs
Employment: Commission proposes €918,000 from Globalisation Fund to support former workers of GAD abattoirs in France.
Russia: temporary restrictions on the supply of certain types of meat products from the EU
By-products of cattle and pigs, meals of meat or meat offal, cattle fat, pork fat (including lard) and poultry fat are now banned.
Spain: changes in the swine census in the last decade
We must highlight the important increases in the last 10 years in Aragon (+58.39%), Galicia (+24.53%) and Catalonia (+6.83%).