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Global cereal production is expected to be less than consumption requirements in 2021/22, leading to a drawdown in world inventories.

Record shipments to Mexico and strong growth in several other markets helped offset the expected slowdown in muscle cut exports to China.

According to the FAO meat price index, global pig meat prices declined in September while ovine and bovine prices increased.

According to the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, the number of ASF outbreaks in the country is down from last year, but the risk of disease spread remains.

As of October 1, the state of Brandenburg will pay €150 for each wild boar hunted in the ASF restricted areas.

The EU pigmeat market is in a difficult situation due to increased production and decreased demand from food services and China. Prices have been falling steadily in the past months.

The arrangement allows for the safe trade of swine products from disease-free zones in Canada in the event of an ASF outbreak.

At the Agriculture Ministers' Conference in Dresden from September 30 to October 1, the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture called on the state ministers to commit to the conversion of livestock farming.

Previously, examining all wild boar hunted in good health was only mandatory in the districts of Görlitz and Bautzen, but this has now been extended to the districts of Meissen and Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains as well as to the state capital Dresden.

Overall feed production is projected to rise slightly during the remainder of 2021 and into 2022.

The label gives pig farmers the opportunity to differentiate themselves by going above and beyond the legal standards for animal welfare.