Fewer farming operations in Switzerland
Both the number of Swiss pig farms and the number of animals are decreasing.
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COVID-19: USDA and FDA announced a Memorandum of Understanding
This action is another in a series of proactive steps the USDA and FDA have taken to maximize food availability following unprecedented disruptions the COVID-19 pandemic has caused to food supply chains.
Vion: Changes to supervisory board
Vion announces today that Martine Snels has joined its supervisory board.
SIAL Paris: Lockdown and development
The flexibility of food industry companies to innovate, challenge conventions,
and reinvent themselves during a crisis.
VIV worldwide: COVID-19 challenges exhibitions
VIV discusses the challenges they have faced with restrictions due to COVID-19 and explains the measures they are taking to ensure safe trade shows.
Alltech ONE Virtual Experience opens to global audience
Alltech ONE Virtual Experience opens to global audience, offering insights for agriculture and beyond. The launch attracts a record-breaking 21,500 registrants from 126 countries and counting.
Spain: Nitrogen emission calculator for pig manure
Proper manure management is crucial, and farmers are the ones primarily responsible.
France closes a slaughterhouse due to employees with COVID-19
To date, there are 34 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a slaughterhouse in Fleury les Aubrais. The company will be closed temporarily by a prefectoral order.
US predicts how COVID-19 will shake its pork industry in 2020 and into 2021
Due to COVID-19, US pork production in 2020 is predicted to be lower than last year. Projections for 2021 reflect some lingering effects of the pandemic.
Russia: Cereal exports and harvest projections
The Ministry of Agriculture maintains its cereal export projection at 45 million tonnes for the current agricultural season, including 36 million tonnes of wheat, despite implementing a quota.
Germany: amendment to the Fertilizer Regulation approved
After several months of very intense and controversial debates, the German Upper House (Bundesrat) has approved a new amendment to the Fertilizer Regulations, as reported by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture in its foreign news bulletin.
ASF Belgium: movement restrictions lifted for forests
A new decree will come into effect on May 15, authorizing the movement of walkers and cyclists in ASF-infected areas of the forest.
FAO: Global meat price drops again
The FAO Meat Price index registered the fourth consecutive monthly decline.
Pig Survivability Conference - Registration open
Topics range from economic and financial impacts of survivability to the roles people and technology play in decreasing mortality and increasing survivability.
Magapor launches a new APP, exclusive for customers
Magapor, a company specialized in swine reproduction, is proud to make a new APP exclusively available for their customers.
CPF's Q1 earnings spike 43%, amid expectations of mild impacts from COVID-19
Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF) reported Bt6,111 million in net profits in the first quarter of 2020, a 43% increase from the same period last year, due chiefly to ASF causing a significant shortage in pork supply and increasing prices.