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Director of Agriculture, Mr. Ashton Stanley said beef production during 2008 increased from 90,000 kilos in 2007 to 108,000 kilos in 2008, up 19.5 percent. Pork production dropped slightly from 74,600 kilos in 2007 from 2,737 pigs to 71,700 kilos in 2008 from 2,632 pigs.

A PCV-2 retrospective serological survey was carried out with 659 serum samples collected from pigs in Mexico between 1972 and 2000.

Researchers of the CReSA, in collaboration with researchers of the Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA-INIA) and Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC) have been able to obtain a protective anti-viral cytotoxic response using chimeric calicivirus-like particles without adjuvant.

Farmers from across the country will directly impact the design of the Government of Canada's new agricultural flexibility program and other key policies through roundtable discussions with Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz.

Consumers buying fresh chicken and pork from supermarket shelves in Bangkok can feel more confident about the quality and safety of the food, thanks to a pilot project initiated by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). They can do this by using the lot number or trace number printed on the package and tracing the origin of the products back to the farm via mobile phone.

Connecting the 30% of the EU's rural population that has no high speed internet access should be a priority for achieving 'broadband for all' by 2010, the Commission said. Improved internet connectivity is a powerful tool to stimulate swift economic recovery.

The Oireachtas Committee that examined the dioxin crisis in the pig industry is to recommend a reversal of the Budget policy to amalgamate the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) with two other bodies.

The Agriculture Department plans to ask hog industry leaders next month to review their prices in a bid to spur currently dampened consumption.

The People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Nam has officially declared the outbreak of blue-ear pig disease in the province and banned all transport, trade, slaughter and the consumption of pigs and pork products in the affected areas.

The population of the pigs in the farm is divided into two premises which are 70m far from each other. The affected animals were discovered only in one of the two premises where 500 pregnant sows and 6 males stay. Clinical signs were fever, anorexia, multifocal hyperemia and hemorrhagic lesions of the skin, vomiting, coughing, ataxia and death. Post-mortem investigation has revealed lesions that fit classical swine fever.

A federal pilot swine influenza virus (SIV) surveillance program could result in improvements in vaccines for swine and development of vaccine seed strains for humans.

Pork prices will not be affected by the culling of 6,000 hogs in Pandi, Bulacan, the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) assured consumers on Saturday.

Over the past years farmers have become more dependent on government and EU subsidies, according to a National Statistics Office report. Whereas subsidies amounted to 31.8 per cent of farmers' income in 2006, the dependency of subsidies increased by 4.9 percentage points to 36.7 per cent in 2007.

In an unprecedented move, Defra farms minster Jane Kennedy will travel to Brussels with NFU and NPA to lobby MEPs ahead of a critical vote in the European Parliament on IPPC. It is feared the changes will impact on more pig and poultry farms, farms with feed mills, and the glasshouse sector. Existing IPPC pig and poultry farmers will also be burdened with further controls and more administrative red-tape.

Last year meat production in Germany reached 7.5 million tonnes, a 3.3% increase on the previous year. (Original in German. Read Google translation here).