G20 - Agriculture Ministers meet to discuss food security
G20 Agriculture Ministers are meeting in Paris today to discuss measures to address the problem of high food prices and market volatility.
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Iowa Pork Producers continue half-century of aid to Japan
The people of Iowa have a special connection with Japan dating back more than 50 years. When two typhoons devastated the Japanese prefecture of Yamanashi in 1959, Iowans stepped forward to help rebuild the region’s hog industry by donating 35 hogs and 1,500 tons of corn to feed them.
Cherkizovo Group launches production at the meat processing plant in the Kaliningrad region
OJSC Cherkizovo Group, one of Russia's leading integrated and diversified meat producers, is pleased to announce the launch of operations at the meat processing plant in the Kaliningrad region acquired in 2010.
Boehringer Ingelheim satellite symposium highlights PCV2 landmarks
An important anniversary in the history of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) has been marked at a special international pig veterinary satellite symposium held in Barcelona, Spain in June 2011 as part of the 6th International Symposium on Emerging and Re-emerging Pig Diseases. In 2011, this meeting heard, it is 15 years since the name PMWS was first proposed by Canadian investigators Ted Clark and John Harding for the novel wasting disease of growing pigs that they were observing in herds in Western Canada
New board for new Pork CRC
Ensuring Australian pork is a high integrity meat that is welfare optimal, environmentally responsible, safe and nutritious is the focus of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork.
European Union - New animal health control measures relating to classical swine fever in Hungary and Slovakia
Hungary and Slovakia have informed the Commission about the recent developments with regard to that disease in their territories.
Argentina - Inauguration of the Senasa National Reference Laboratory
The President of Argentina together with the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishing, Julián Domínguez, officially inaugurated the first Senasa National Reference Laboratory.
Denmark - Decrease in swine census
The latest data published by the Danish Statistics Service on the swine census during the second trimester of this year show a 2,25% decrease in the total number of swine with respect to the same period last year (11.932.000 animals as opposed to 12.208.000).
6th International Symposium on Emerging and Re-emerging Pig Diseases
333tv was at the 6th International Symposium on Emerging and Re-emerging Pig Diseases in Barcelona and interviewed several speakers such as Scott Dee, Zoilo M. Lapus, J. M. Sanchez Vizcaíno or Quim Segalés.
Magapor gathers over 150 specialists in swine reproduction at its VI Technical Meeting in Zaragoza, Spain
Last 26th May, Javier Velasco, councilor of Science, Technology and University from the Aragonese Government, opened this international discussion forum for porcine reproduction agents that gathered more than 150 AIC specialists from over 16 countries.
Chile – Increase in agroforestry GDP
The agroforestry sector grew by 15,8% alter falling by 0,4%in the fourth trimester of 2010. As far as subsectors are concerned, the GDP contributions are, on average, 20% agriculture (crops); 40%, fruit growing; 40% livestock and 20% forestry.
FAO - Higher agriculture commodity prices here to stay
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011-2020 says that a good harvest in the coming months should push commodity prices down from the extreme levels seen earlier this year. However, the Outlook states that over the coming decade real prices for cereals could average as much as 20 percent higher and those for meats as much as 30 percent higher, compared to 2001-10. These projections are well below the peak price levels experienced in 2007-08 and again this year.
USA - Drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus: Nationwide study finds U.S. meat and poultry is widely contaminated
Drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria linked to a wide range of human diseases, are present in meat and poultry from U.S. grocery stores at unexpectedly high rates, according to a nationwide study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
China - Rising pork prices prompt fear of inflation
3 yrs ago, rising pork prices helped push inflation to a record high. Now, many Chinese are fearful that they are experiencing deja vu, as the price of pork rises, and threatens to exacerbate inflation concerns that have affected the World's 2ndlargest economy.
European Union - New catalogue of feed materials
The appropriate representatives of the European feed business sectors have developed amendments to Regulation (EU) No 242/2010. These amendments concern new entries and improvements of existing entries.
China’s five labs designated as OIE Reference Labs
It was approved at the General Session on 26 May that five veterinary laboratories of China were designated as OIE Reference Laboratories.