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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.

Jim Fitzpatrick (57) has been appointed a junior minister at Defra, where he succeeds Jane Kennedy.

When it comes to allergies, pigs are not much different than people. Young piglets and other animals suffer from adverse reactions to soy, leading to a research project to understand the full impact of feeding soy. In doing so, research funded by the United Soybean Board, National Pork Board and QUALISOY can uncover ways to improve U.S. soybean varieties and soybean meal.

The Harper Government’s Economic Action Plan is supporting the livestock sector by making meat packing and processing facilities more competitive and accessible to farmers across the country. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz along with Minister of National Revenue and Minister of State (Agriculture) Jean-Pierre Blackburn today announced that the three-year, $50-million Slaughter Improvement Program is now in place and will soon be accepting applications.

Decreased cereal quotas, lower milk prices, the pig cycle and the financial crises are the main reasons European compound feed production saw a slight decline in 2008 – 0.4% less feed was produced last year compared to 2007.

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has today announced the five successful projects to receive government grants to create energy from organic waste, such as food. Anaerobic digestion breaks down organic matter, such as animal manure and food waste to produce biogas, a renewable energy source for heat, power and transport and keeps organic waste out of landfill, which cuts greenhouse gas emissions.

During the last two years, 38 swine herds on the island of Bornholm have disappeared which leaves a total of only 94 herds. The number of animals has decreased by 3,000 head.

The University of Maryland School of Medicine's Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) has been awarded $20 million from the National Institutes of Health to create a Genomic Sequencing Center for Infectious Diseases.

There was a rapid increase in farms using vaccine in the BPEX-funded PCV2 vaccination project in spring of last year with the percentage of farms vaccinating later levelling off at close to 70 percent. But figures from NADIS do not show a significant decrease in PMWS. The reason is that, as expected, vaccination, at least in the early stages, does not lead to a complete disappearance of disease from farms, explains NADIS.