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The USGC, along with NCGA, MAIZAR, and ABRAMILHO signed a memorandum of understanding.

The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 179 points in April, a level which it has maintained since the latter part of 2012.

Pork production is forecast to increase more rapidly than in 2013 as lower forecast feed costs provide incentives for producers to expand farrowings and increase carcass weights from 2013 levels.

3.5 million tons were assigned to swine feeding.

The Council adopted Conclusions on organic farming. It pointed out in particular the importance of an appropriate regulatory framework for the development of this sector.

It is meat that comes from pigs raised in the regions of Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées, and Poitou-Charentes.

In March Ukraine imported 9,294 t of pork, which is 30% lower than in the previous month.

The outbreak is located in Vaals in Margraten (Limburg), with 30 susceptible animals of which 2 cases.

The Ukrainian veterinary service, because of suspected cases of African swine fever in Belarus, temporarily banned the importation of animals and their products to ascertain the circumstances.

Assuming more normal weather conditions than in 2012, global wheat production in 2013 is expected to reach 695 million tonnes, 5.4 percent up from last year's harvest.

Last year, the hog industry grew by 1.7 percent.

Classical Swine Fever has now been successfully eradicated from central Europe, one of the historical foci of the infection.