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Corn use for ethanol is projected up 50 million bushels, domestic corn feed and residual use is projected 50 million bushels lower than in 2010/1.

Thirteen people have been convicted in connection with Europe’s biggest ever illegal veterinary medicine business in which more than £6 million of products were smuggled to the UK, risking the health of people and animals.

Feed safety is further strengthened through the improvement of feed information brought about by a new regulation creating a new catalogue of feed materials.

The sharp fall in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cases in the EU must not lead to a slackening of surveillance, say MEPs in a resolution passed on Wednesday. Any change to BSE safety rules must maintain high animal and public health standards, but the ban on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants, such as pigs, could gradually be lifted if further safeguards are put in place, they add.

The European Parliament has just adopted a Regulation on Food Information for consumers.

Copa-Cogeca released new EU grain harvest estimates revealing a 1% production drop in this years EU cereals harvest.

Total wheat exports from Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan over the next decade will be approximately 33% of the world wheat exports, nearly two times more than projected wheat exports from the current leader - the United States (17.7%).

EU Member States should have the flexibility to ban or restrict the cultivation of genetically modified crops and should be able to cite environmental motives for doing so, according to MEPs voting on draft legislation on Tuesday.