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Pork imports totalled 286,000 tonnes during the period, up 90.3% from a year earlier.

This is the first case of PED in southeast Manitoba since January 2015.

According to AsianAgribiz, China will maintain stable pork production in the next five years, targeting an output of 57.6 million tonnes by 2020.

Although year after year the number of farms has decreased, we must highlight the new trend started in 2014 and that has gone on in 2015.

Department of Defense notified stakeholders that had identified the first colistin-resistant mcr-1 E. coli in a person in the United States. A USDA and HHS search for colistin-resistant bacteria in food animals, retail meats and people also has found colistin-resistant E. coli in a single sample from a pig intestine.

During the first quarter of this year, the number of pigs slaughtered increased by 6% compared to the same period in 2015 (1,384,315 heads in 2016 vs. 1,306,373 in 2015).

This status will facilitate the access of the Russian agricultural products to the international markets.

The French year-over-year exports rate of all the products dropped by 2.5%, reaching 732,000 tonnes in 2015.

The Russian Agriculture Ministry prepares draft Government decree to extend food embargo until the end of 2017.