Philippines: pork prices high in Western Visayas due to low supply
The supply of swine meat in wet markets all over Western Visayas has dropped to alarming levels, the outcome of which is the high prices of pork.
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Korea cull sows to help stabilize price
The Korean government seeks to cull up to 100,000 sows to help stabilize pork prices.
France: the Ministry of Agriculture cooperates with the sector for the future of the swine industry
The French Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll, brought together, early this week, all the parties in the swine industry to develop a plan for the future of the sector.
My new pig barn!
I started building this house this past January 2011 and just finished it on May 1, 2011. It holds 1200 pigs.
Rabobank: promising outlook for the second half of 2013
It appears the seasonal trends in the pork market in the Northern Hemisphere are reversing with strong export demand and high prices in the second half of the year.
Australia: swine inventory and pig meat production is expected to decline slightly in 2013
Total pig numbers are now forecast to finish the year at 2.25 million head.
Russia: pork production is expected to appreciably increase in 2013
FAS/Moscow forecasts 2013 beginning stocks of swine to increase by 8 percent over past estimates as result of an increase in year-end Rosstat inventory statistics.
Canada: pig numbers down
Hog producers reported 12.7 million hogs, down 0.5% from January 1, 2012.
Agricultural short-term market outlook: pigmeat production down in 2013
The Commission is publishing today its short-term market outlook for arable crop, meat and dairy markets in the EU. The EU pig meat production is expected to decline in 2013 (-2%).
Chile: increase in pig production in 2012
The swine sector ended year 2012 with a growth in production by around 12% with respect to year 2011.
European Union: agricultural census 2010 surveyed close to 12 million farms in the EU-27
Almost half (48 %) of the livestock units surveyed in EU-27 holdings were cattle. Pigs came in second with 27.4 %, followed by poultry with 14 % share of the EU-27 livestock units.
Spain: the slaughter of pigs increased during 2012
The slaughter of pigs increased by 1.55% with respect to the previous year, with a total of 42,391,369 animals slaughtered vs. the 41,743,363 pigs slaughtered in 2011.
Argentina: increase in pig production
Last year (2012), the slaughtering of pigs raised by almost 12% in Argentina.
France: reduction of the swine livestock census in Brittany
Between 2000 and 2010, the swine livestock census in Brittany has fallen by almost 4%.
Smithfield well positioned to meet rising demand for ractopamine-free pork
Smithfield Foods, Inc. said today that the company is well positioned to meet rising demand for ractopamine-free pork, following recent announcements that China and Russia will require third party certification that pork exports are ractopamine-free.
Germany: year-on-year meat production drops in 2012
Specifically, in the case of pork, in 2012 the production was almost 5.5 million tons: 2.5% less than in 2011 (-140,700 tons).