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The Universty of Cordoba, and the companies Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza Agroganadera del Valle de Los Pedroches (COVAP) and PigChamp Pro-Europa are developing a pioneer project in Andalusia whose aim is to control and minimize the presence of salmonella in the Iberian pig, thus improving the health of animals and the food safety of products.

A Senate subcommittee, which spent the past year investigating the impact of index fund traders on the Chicago wheat futures market, concluded that the new money pouring into traditional agricultural hedging market has significantly distorted the market.

In response to the summer 2008 listeriosis crisis that cost the lives of 22 Canadians, the Canadian Parliament’s Food Safety Subcommittee has published the report "Beyond the Listeriosis Crisis: Strengthening the Food Safety System."

BPEX has launched a campaign to encourage processors and retailers to make country-of-origin labelling clearer on pork products. The campaign comes after a YouGov survey revealed that consumers find labelling on pork products confusing and are concerned that products containing imported pork that does not meet minimum UK welfare standards can legally be labelled as ‘British’ or ‘UK’ produce.

In the current year Russia may import 1/4 of meat consumed in the country against 1/3 imported in 2008. The data was presented by Dmitry Medvedev, the President of the Russian Federation.

This has been a tough year for meat-packer margins, especially in the pork sector, according to the Livestock Marketing Information Center. LMIC notes that packer margins have suffered dramatically this year, averaging less than half of those posted in 2008.

COMMISSION DECISION of 22 June 2009 on the purchase of foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens (2009/486/EC).

The new legislation, based on a Commission proposal from 2008, considerably simplifies the existing procedures and it will help promote innovation and competitiveness in the European feed sector. It is also expected to lead to a more integrated single market for feed by reducing the administrative burden for feed operators. The regulation was endorsed by the European Parliament on February 5 and is expected to enter into force later this year.

The majority of East Anglia pigs are now in the region’s producer-run Swine Dysentery Eradication (Control) Scheme. And no breeding units in the scheme are positive for the disease.

The Council reached political agreement on a regulation improving welfare of animals at slaughter (13312/08).

Due to the favorable situation on the classical swine fever in the territory of the Slovak Republic the Rosselkhoznadzor Instructions dd. April 22, 2008 No. FS-NV-2/3795 and No. FS-EN-2/2349 cease to be in force since June 8, 2009.

Headed by Professor George Milne of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, researchers at The University of Western Australia (UWA) have concluded that a classical swine fever outbreak, starting in north Queensland, could spread widely through Australia’s 20 million feral pigs, potentially posing a risk to Australia’s domestic pig population.

The debate was only the second on farming in six years. It covered many of the issues affecting livestock farming including TB, EID, cost sharing, bluetongue vaccination, labelling, the environment, fallen stock, food security, recruitment and training, regulation and procurement.

In 2008, Denmark had approximately 5,800 farms with pig production. The farms produced a total of 27.4 mill pigs. The co-operatively owned slaughterhouses slaughtered 19 mill pigs (19.6 mill in 2007).

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is distributing $176 million in Recovery Act funding to upgrade laboratory buildings and support facilities at research locations across the country.