United Kingdom: top Five for pig health
A ‘top five’ of farm services that will be available to every pig farm signing up to BPEX’s new national pig health scheme, was revealed at this week’s ‘Two Tonne Sow’ Focus on Health conferences.
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Philippine government to build five AAA abattoirs
Alcala said that the Department of Agriculture has set aside P180M initial budget for the establishment of five ‘triple A’ slaughterhouses to enable pork producers and processors to supply the local market quality products and take advantage of the international market.
Botswana: Foot and mouth disease
Continuous surveillance is still ongoing to monitor FMD situation. Surveillance in pigs is namely passive.
USA: corn stocks down 34 percent from year ago
Old crop corn stocks in all positions on September 1, 2011 totaled 1.13 billion bushels, down 34 percent from September 1, 2010.
Finalists chosen for Pfizer Pig Trainee of Year Award
Three of the pig industry’s brightest young workers from Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire have been chosen as finalists competing for the 2011 Pfizer Pig Trainee of the Year Award.
Brazil: increase in pork exports to Ukraine,Hong Kong and Argentina
In September, just as with the annual cumulate, an increase has been noted in pork sent to Ukraine, Hong Kong, and Argentina.
European Union: grain harvest slightly up
Copa-Cogeca released final EU grain harvest estimates, showing a slight 1.9% production
rise, despite bad climatic conditions.
Russia's swine inventory will likely grow about 2.7 percent
Russia’s swine inventory will likely grow about 2.7 percent to 17.545 million head at the end of December 2012 from 17.2 million head at the end of December 2011, supported by lower feed prices in the second half of the year and increased state support.
European Union: The number of agricultural holdings in the EU27 fell by 20% between 2003 and 2010
In 2010 there were just over 12 million agricultural holdings and an utilised agricultural area (UAA) of 170 million hectares in the EU27.
Vietnam's livestock shifts to industrial farms
Vietnam would modernise its livestock sector by shifting from household-based to industrial farms in a move to boost quantity and quality of livestock products.
United Kingdom: AHVLA announces changes to its delivery network
Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) has announced that in future its laboratory services work will be delivered from fewer locations.
New partnership agreement to extend ILRI's livestock and forages research in China
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) today (14 October, 2011) signed an agreement to extend their shared operations in livestock and forage genetics research. Hosted in Beijing, the Chinese capital, the initiative will strengthen the already existing relationship between ILRI and CAAS that has seen the two research centres share research and facilities through the CAAS-ILRI Joint Laboratory on Livestock and Forage Genetic Resources for the past 7 years.
European Union: pigmeat is expected to to remain stable in 2012
The Commission has now published for the first time a short term outlook for main agricultural commodity markets. Meat production, boosted by good exports in 2010, is expected to continue the trend in 2011 and then decrease slightly in 2012.
China: 2012 pork production forecast to rise four percent
Pork production in 2012 is forecast to jump four percent to 51.3 MMT from an estimated three percent decline in the previous year.
MRSA thrives even without antibiotics
The MRSA bacterium, which is resistant to antibiotics, has spread rapidly in the past few years on pig farms. Extensive use of antibiotics is thought to help it spread, but reducing the use of antibiotics is not enough to eliminate MRSA on pig farms.
China: new outbreak of foot and mouth disease
The report described a single outbreak of FMD on a farm in the village of Duixu (Zhongda town, Lang, Linzhi).