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The number of pig farms will halve over the next ten years, the pig population will shrink and increases in scale will continue. Affordable solutions with regard to manure disposal must be implemented before 2015.

Prices increased for milk (9.2%), poultry (8.5%), cattle (8%), equines (7.2%), sheep and goats (5.2%) and pigs (4.4%) but decreased for eggs (-4.7%).

The objective of this rule is to improve the price and supply reporting services of AMS in order to encourage competition in the marketplace for wholesale pork products by increasing the amount of information available to participants.

Hog inventories were reported at 12.0 million head, up 1.1% from 11.9 million on January 1, 2011 and higher by 1.6% from the same date in 2010.

China’s potential to affect the world pork market derives from the size and volatility of its domestic pork market.

European finished pig prices remained at a high level through the second half of 2011.

The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 179 points, half a percent (1 point) above its December value. Prices of the various meat types followed mixed directions, with pig meat up 2.8 percent.

A zero-duty tariff-rate quota for 70,000 MT of fresh and frozen pork bellies and pork for processing is opened from January 1- March 31.

2012 Italian pork meat production is expected to stagnate at 1.6 MMT following the trend in slaughtering.

The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 179 points, slightly down compared with November. The decline was mainly driven by pig meat, whose price dropped by 2.2 percent

Vietnam exports 6,000 pigs weighing around 135 tonnes daily to China via border gates in two Northern provinces of Lang Son and Quang Ninh, said the Animal Health Department.

China's pork imports are likely to hit a record this year, but the surge will have limited influence on surging prices, analysts said.

Of the 1 billion pigs being raised in the world, about half are in China, where pork consumption is increasing as the Chinese economy develops. As a result, pork prices are rising, a trend that is impacting the world economy.

Retail pork prices rose by 3.1% in July, according to the RPI index, compared with a year ago says the latest BPEX quarterly category report.

Pork prices in China rose to a record high of 26.22 yuan ($4.1 yuan) a kilogram last week, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce.