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Australia is gradually restoring its positions of one of the major red meat exporters to Russia and the CIS countries (former Soviet states), most Russian experts believe.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced USDA's intention to purchase an additional $30 million in pork products in FY 2009 for federal food and nutrition assistance programs.

Net farm income is forecast to be $54.0 billion in 2009, down $33.2 billion (38 percent) from the preliminary estimate of $87.2 billion for 2008. The 2009 forecast is $9 billion below the average of $63.2 billion in net farm income earned in the previous 10 years.

Russia may raise quotas for beef imports and cut allocations for pork and poultry next year.

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.

After the evaluation of the Mexican veterinary services, el Agriffod and Veterinary Authority of SINGAPUR (AVA) informed Mexico of the possibility that it may export pig meat and pig products. Singapure will now begin the process of creating a listing of TIF establishments as these had asked for.(Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

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

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

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

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).

The Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) has announced it is to trial a series of meetings giving the chance for business operators to meet with management.

Slovakia has asked the Commission to authorise three methods for grading pig carcases and has presented the results of its dissection trials in the second part of the protocol provided for in Article 23(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1249/2008. Examination of this request has revealed that the conditions for authorising these grading methods are fulfilled.

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).