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The retail price of many meat products is forecast to rise strongly during the next five years as supplies remain relatively tight. Beef, lamb and pork prices are all set to rise by at least $1.50kg as demand remains high, continuing the rising trend of recent years.

Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Diep Kinh Tan urged relevant agencies and provincial animal health bureaus to take quick response to the current complicated developments of diseases in poultry and livestock, according to a report of the ministry's website on Wednesday.

The European Commission today said that it is considering tougher rules on the treatment of animals in transit and that it shares the concern of 150,000 Europeans who have signed a petition calling for an end to the “unnecessary suffering of millions of animals” being transported long distances in Europe.

Grain prices have dropped significantly from last year’s peak, but the impact of higher prices will continue to affect livestock production.

In a bid to streamline the meat and poultry processing industry in the country, the Government of India on Thursday launched the National Meat and Poultry Processing Board (NMPPB).

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today awarded more than $11 million in grants to 15 states to support research, education and outreach in animal genomics that will enhance the protection and safety of agriculture and the food supply.

China's top legislature approved the Food Safety Law on Saturday, providing a legal basis for the government to strengthen food safety control "from the production line to the dining table."

As part of its commitment to protecting the health and safety of Canadians, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is implementing enhanced Listeria testing and reporting requirements in plants producing ready-to-eat meats, such as cold cuts.

One of agriculture's most versatile crops could one day play a role in combating climate change, Purdue University research shows. Purdue agricultural engineers Al Heber and Jiqin Ni found that soybean oil reduces greenhouse gas emissions when sprayed inside swine finishing barns.

The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade has published figures concerning foreign trade of food products in 2008. There was a surplus of 810.8 million euros as a result of exports to the value of 26,787.4 million euros and imports of 25,976.6 million euros. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

Confidence is key in time of crisis and to achieve this, governments should clean banks’ balance sheets, signal that individual stimulus packages are closely knitted together into a global joint effort, demonstrate that leaders of major economies can work together in full coordination and trust, and show that the world trade environment is not deteriorating, that isolationist pressures are contained. That was the message Director-General Pascal Lamy delivered to a conference in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 23 February 2009.

"Purchases have shifted from pork to chicken, which are more moderately priced than beef," the article quoted Masaharu Watanabe, head of public relations and consumer affairs for the Japan Chain Stores Association (JCSA), as saying.

During the first six weeks of 2009 Dutch exports of piglets have increased by 9% compared to the previous year. One of the causes of this increase is that since January 2009 Holland is considered to be free from Aujesky's disease. (Original in German. Read Google translation here).

English sow numbers declined by eight per cent in the year to June 2008. Between the middle of 2008 and the end of the year, feed prices moved lower. As a result, estimated net margins moved from negative to positive (albeit a small positive) in the autumn. Producers have appeared to respond to the margin improvements more rapidly than expected The English breeding herd in December was 8,000 head higher then in June, although still 6,000 (1.6%) lower than in December 2007.

At the beginning of 2009 the number of sows in Canada was 7.1% lower than at the same time the previous year. It seems that the federal programme for the elimination of sows has produced results, although the target was a decrease of 10%. (Original in French. Read Google translation here).

In its quarterly "Outlook for U.S Agricultural Trade" report USDA cut its U.S. pork export forecast for 2009 by 200,000 metric tons ($600 million) to 1.3 million metric tons and compared to 1.53 million metric tons exported in 2008. Forecasts for beef, broiler meat and beef and pork variety meat exports, however, were left unchanged.