Vietnam plans to import 70,000 tons of meat in 2012
Local meat consumption has reached 3.3 million tons, with an anticipated increase of 7% compared to this year.
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Netherlands: more balanced manure market management
The new system aims to encourage employers to limit their excess manure and try to give them answers, through cooperation and innovation capacity.
Paraguay: new outbreak of FMD
This new outbreak notified in this report is epidemiologically linked with the previous event notified on 18 September 2011 and closed on 30 December 2011.
Ufac-UK appoints Philippine distributor
Ufac-UK has appointed First Fil-Bio I/E Corporation, as their sole distributor in the Philippines.
Testing females to improve accuracy
With high-priced feed accounting for the major cost of production, it is important to test the females in all lines, as well as the males, since they contribute 50 per cent of the genetics to the next generation.
PIC announces first shipment from USA to Russia
PIC has completed delivery of 1,071 high health breeding pigs from the USA to key account Gvardia in the Stavropol Region of Russia.
Securing the Future (I): Cheap creep feed a dear buy!
Pig producers packed a ‘Securing the Future’ seminar in Cookstown to discuss how best they to take those opportunities 2012 and the years beyond.
Securing the Future (II): Euro prospects poor, but pigmeat demand grows
As guest speaker at the ‘Securing the Future’ seminar for Ulster pig producers Jim Power warned that the euro crisis and global recession will impact on UK agriculture even though this is one of the few industries still growing across the British Isles.
Securing the future (III): Keep those weaners moving
Pig and pig feed price fluctuations are largely beyond the control of producers, who can however keep on improving livestock performance, not least at the weaner stage.
Securing the future (IV): Feed prices to ease?
Feed prices may well drift back this spring at a time when pig prices are likely to firm producers at the ‘Securing the Future’ seminar were told by Aidan O’Toole of Devenish Nutrition.
Presenting Pork CRC APSA awards
University of Queensland post-graduate, Larissa Beale, has been awarded Pork CRC Best Presentation at the 2011 13th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA) Conference.
San Miguel Foods Inc. and PIC announce expansion of strategic partnership
The new agreement, to stock and maintain a new 2,500 sow GP unit growing to 5,000 sows, reflects SMFI’s increasing requirement for PIC’s healthy, superior breeding stock to produce quality pork for the Monterey meatshops.
Taiwan: new outbreak of FMD
Pigs with vesicular lesions were reported by a private veterinarian on a pig farm in Tainan City with 2667 susceptible animals and 983 cases.
Guatemala: no other outbreaks of CSF detected
No other outbreaks of classical swine fever have been detected so far by the official veterinary services in pigs from the villages or farms around the outbreaks.
European Union: welfare of animals during transport
The Council was briefed by the Commission on a report on the impact of regulation 1/2005 on the
protection of animals during transport (16798/11). Several delegations welcomed the report, saying that they would look forward to the follow-up to this report.
United Kingdom: new advice service to give farmers a helping hand
Defra’s new Farming Advice Service (FAS) will offer a one-stop-shop to farmers needing advice on subjects including cross compliance, nutrient management, competitiveness, and climate change adaption and mitigation.