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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved higher blending rates for ethanol in gasoline for 2007 and newer vehicles, allowing mixtures with up to 15% of the corn-based fuel at the pump. The current maximum ethanol blend rate is 10%; a mid-level blend rate increase of 12% had been discussed in recent months.

Offal imports grew from 174,000 tonnes in the first six months of 2009 to 286,000 tonnes in the same period of 2010. Pork imports rose from 65,700 tonnes to 88,100 tonnes in the same period.

U.S. feed grain production for 2010/11 is projected lower this month based on reduced forecasts for corn and sorghum.

A new forecast from the Knowledge Centre for Pig Production shows that throughout the whole 2010-2012 period, deficits are expected for all types of pig farms.

Hong Kong has removed its ban on South Korean pork imports, becoming the first state to do so since Seoul was declared free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

Statistics on GB Animal Feed include data for the period June 2010, July 2010 and August 2010.

Grain and oilseed production in the Prairie provinces was expected to decline for total wheat and for canola in 2010 compared with 2009. In contrast, farmers in Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario reported they expected to harvest a record soybean crop

EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Steven Vanackere representing the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), and the Korean Minister for Trade Kim Jong-hoon today signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and South Korea. This FTA is the most ambitious trade agreement ever negotiated by the EU and the first with an Asian country.

Midway through September, a third less cereal crops have been harvested in Russia compared with the same period last year, according to the Russian Minister of Agriculture.