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The Department of Agriculture (DA) is pushing for the creation of a Livestock and Poultry Board to oversee the livestock and poultry sectors. The planned Livestock and Poultry Board would be similar to the National Corn Board which exercises supervision over corn growers and feed millers.

China’s central government is set to start buying frozen pork for the national reserves next week, in an attempt to relieve live hog oversupply and the continuous price fall in live hog and pork. The first batch of some 120,000 tonnes of frozen pork will be scheduled, while the target volume is expected to reach 200,000 tonnes.

In it's monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Report, released this week, USDA projects that corn demand in the 2009/2010 marketing year will surpass production by 525 million bushels. For the marketing year that begins Sept. 1, USDA estimates corn usage at 12.3 million bushels. The result will be a significant drop in storage stocks.

The Russian veterinary authority has sent Follow up Report No. 18 to OIE, reporting no new cases of ASF in pigs. The event is described as 'resolved'.

According to figures from the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, the beginning of the Plan for Improved Accessibility of Livestock Products To Foreign Markets has already given rise to a notable increase in exports, especially in the swine sector which currently exports more than 940,000 tonnes of meat which represents over 26% of total production. In 2008 there was an increase of 24% compared to 2007, with an increase of 15% for European Union countries and an increase of 57.5% to other countries. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed the report that African Swine Fever has been discovered in a certain part of Delta State. Also, the Delta State Ministry of Agriculture has quarantined the affected piggery and has started culling the affected pigs to prevent the disease from spreading to other pigs.

According to the National Council of Balanced Feed Manufacturers and Animal Nutrition, CONAFAB (Consejo Nacional de Fabricantes de Alimentos Balanceados y de la Industria Animal), the 400 compound fodder factories in Mexico produced 26,200 tonnes of the products in 2008, which is equivalent to a 1.9% growth on the previous year’s production. An increase of 1.5% is predicted for 2009. More than half the national production of compound fodders (52.5%) is destined for aviculture, this is followed by fodder for dairy cows (17.3%), swine (14.9%) and beef cows (10.0%). (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

Over the first 4 months of the year, French household consumption of fresh pork increased by 6.8% in volume compared with same period in 2008, during this period the average retail price of fresh pig meat decreased by 2.2%.

A bill that would have affected the use of antibiotics in livestock has been defeated by the California Senate by a vote of 20-15. The bill would have required all school districts in California to make every effort to purchase poultry and meat products that had not been treated with non-theraputic anitibiotics. The original bill was even tougher. It would have prohibited schools from serving poultry or meat products from animals that had been treated with antibiotics at any time during the life of the animal.

The decreasing price of pork is believed to be the primary factor behind a 0.17 percent deflation experienced by Denpasar in May.