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The Caribbean has been a bright spot for U.S. meat exports so far this year, with pork, beef and lamb exports all showing double-digit volume increases over the first half of 2008.

Taking into consideration the improvement of the situation connected with swine erysipelas, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance coordinated DG-SANCO to correct the veterinary certificate for slaughter pigs exported from the European Union to the Russian Federation.

Agreement to export pig meat to China is nearing fruition as a delegation of Chinese veterinarians visits the UK next month.

The Spain Agribusiness Report Q309 looks at the domestic farming industry during a global recession.

China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corp (COFCO) is set to invest CNY 4 billion (USD 588 million) in Tianjin for a complex combining pig farms with a processing plant.

Nicaragua expects to supply Russia with 12 thousand tonnes of read meat per year.

The global economic crisis that started in late 2008 has led to a sharp curtailment of international trade, including a short-term decline in the value of global agricultural trade of around 20 percent.

Figures for May 2009 indicate a 2.1% decrease in French porcine livestock compared to the previous year, with a total of 14.3 million head, 313,000 fewer than the previous year.

The Governor of the Brazilian state of Santa Caterina this week signed a decree that will allow the sale of fresh pig meat and live animals outside the state free of the Tax on Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) for a period of 90 days.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) recently launched an enhanced U.S. foreign agricultural trade searchable database called the Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS).

According to Nikolai Vlasov, Deputy Head of Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia plans to remove pork import restrictions imposed due to the Influenza A H1N1. (Original in Russian. Read Google translation here).

As of July 1, 2009, the number of hogs and cattle on Canadian farms was down from the same date a year earlier.

During the first five months of 2009 French exports of live pigs increased by 11% (228,000 head) while imports of live animals decreased by 6% (87,000 head) On the contrary, porcine production fell by 1.1% in the same period. (Original in French. Read Google translation here).

Areas currently suffering the worst drought in China are the three northeastern provinces, along with the eastern sector of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. These locations boast important farm land for corn, the major feed for swine.

Producers Livestock Marketing Association, National Farmers Union and Allied Producers Cooperative are calling on USDA to evaluate the pork market impact of a $200-million, federally funded sow buy-out program to reduce pork supplies.