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According to a market research report, " Five year Forecast and Analysis on the United States Hog Market" by Doane Advisory Service, over the 23 month period, budgets show losses averaging $22.50 per head. With hog slaughter over that period totaling more than 220 million head, a total of nearly $5 billion in this downturn.

At January 1, Canadian hog producers had an estimated 11.6 million hogs on their farms, down 4.5% from January 2009. Since January 2009 there has been a 4.3% decrease in the breeding herd, mainly sows and gilts. The inventory of sows is estimated at 1.3 million head.

Indonesia has lifted a temporary ban on imports of pork and its by-products after they were ruled out being the source of human swine flu.

The European Commission authorised a Belgian scheme with a budget of €2.73 million which aims at supporting farmers in Flanders who encounter difficulties as a result of the current economic crisis. Aid under this scheme can be granted until 31 December 2010 and will take the form of interest subsidies and guarantees.

The Government has banned importation of pork from South Korea, as well as poultry and live birds from the same country and Taiwan, an Agriculture official said over the weekend.

As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), more than 7.7 million tonnes of meat were produced from commercial slaughtering in Germany in 2009.

Livestock and poultry are major sources of agricultural pollution in China stated the country's first national census of pollution sources.

Funds in excess of USD 860,000 has been set aside by Indonesia's Bali provincial administration to develop 40 integrated farming locations.

Hog receipts are expected to increase as a slight decline (2.8 percent) in pork production is more than offset by a $3.77-per-cwt increase in the price of pork.

Thailand’s Pig Board, a core body overseeing pig industry policy, has agreed upon action plans to be implemented in associated with the earlier adopted master plan to develop the pig and pork industry as a whole.

The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Masimov, set the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan a goal to develop animal industry to increase manufacture of meat for export.

It was the only meatworks in the region licensed to kill pigs for the export market.