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Tuesday's Ontario budget commits the province's ag ministry to extend its risk management program (RMP) past its pilot stage, and to broaden its coverage beyond grains and oilseeds to include cattle, hogs, sheep and veal.

With tight stocks and strong demand for both maize and soyabeans, the US spring planting has been deemed “the fight for acres” as both prices have needed to be attractive for both crops to receive planted areas to replenish stock levels in the 2011/12 season. However, prices have been much more supportive of the maize market over recent weeks and today’s report suggests that US farmers are to plant more maize for harvest 2011 much at the expense of soyabeans.

Pork production forecast is virtually unchanged despite a downward revision in the slaughter forecast. Production continues to be hindered by higher than expected prices generated a downward revision (1.3 percent) in consumption. Similarly robust prices are also expected to depress imports which are revised lower to the 2010 level.

Abnormal lesions on fifteen pigs' feet were found on the truck by routine inspection before they entered into the auction market of Tainan City. The local animal disease control competent authority traced back to the farm of origin to carry out the clinical investigation. The result showed that 15 pigs on farm had the same clinical lesions. Thirty pigs, the 15 pigs on the truck and the 15 pigs on the index farm, were destroyed on 21 March 2011.

According to USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), China is once again accepting live hogs exported from the United States. China had suspended those imports two years ago, when H1N1 influenza virus was sickening people, along with pork products.

Total closing inventories are forecast to expand to 2.4 million head in CY 2011 as improved feed grain supplies and strong meat prices allow the Australian pig herd to expand.

China vows to strengthen its regulation of food quality to eliminate concerns over food safety and to adopt a system to assess the efficiency of the quality supervision and inspections undertaken by local governments.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported a new outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in China on 29 March.

The World Farmers’ Organization was born on March 29, bringing together farmers from across the globe.

On 19 March 2011, Bulgaria reported a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in beef cattle grazing in the municipality of Sredets, situated in the region of Burgas, west of the municipality of Malko Tarnovo where the last outbreak was reported on 31 January 2011.