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Prices for piglets fell even as prices for fattening pigs rose.

According to preliminary data of Statistics Estonia, at the end of the year, there were 362,200 pigs in Estonia.

The forecast of grain exports from Russia became increased to the level of 27 mln tonnes.

The increase is due in particular to the rise in the consumption of pork, which has grown to reach 460,000 tons.

Last year, United Kingdom pig slaughterings were their highest since 2002, at 9.8m head — up six percent on the previous year.

Ukraine imported 216,000 tons of meat in 2011 and 342,100 tons in 2010.

The US and Canada have already suspended import duties. Suspending these duties will enable Member States to sell their chocolate, pork...

The European Parliament published last January 19 a Resolution on the farm input supply chain in which it calls on the Commission and Member States to improve the transparency of farm input prices.

The government has halted the importation of pigs and their products as well as pig feeds from South Africa as the Mpumalanga Province in that country has been hit with ASF.

Average farm business income is forecast to have fallen 20 percent on specialist pig farms over the year March 2011 to February 2012, according to Defra's farm business income forecasts.

In the period from January to September 2011 there was a 6% increase in exports of fresh and frozen pork.

The Commission allows dispatch to other Member States of fresh pork and prepared meat products from pigs reared in Romania provided that the channeled system is running.

In 2011 Mexico exported more than 48 thousand tons of pork products.

$3.5 million in livestock and forage-related research funding from the Saskatchewan Agriculture Development Fund (ADF).

Teagasc pigs specialist Michael McKeon said that profitability in the pig sector is set to be restored in 2012 as pig prices rise and the cost of feed decreases.