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Figures for the Polish swine population in July 2009 show a 2% increase compared to April 2009, reaching a total of over 14 million head, though this continues to be 7% below the figures for July 2008.

The Quebec government will spot the province's ag lending agency another $233 million for loans, partly to go toward a new round of advances for hog producers.

The European pig herd is continuing to fall. Even though it is falling at a much slower rate.

Producing 70 percent more food for an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050 while at the same time combating poverty and hunger, using scarce natural resources more efficiently and adapting to climate change are the main challenges world agriculture will face in the coming decades, according to an FAO discussion paper.

The latest figures for the Danish export of piglets, sows and slaughter pigs show great increases.

Dwindling fortunes in the pig industry is forcing many farmers in the Ashanti Region to either cease production or convert their farms to produce poultry.

The latest livestock survey in Brittany, the region where the main part of French porcine is produced (56% of the total), showed a decrease of 1% in the swine population compared with 2001. There was also a decrease of 17% in swine herds, dropping from 7,700 in 2001 to 6,400 in 2008. (Original in French. Read Google translation here).

For 2009 and 2010, U.S. feed grain production is forecast at 344.8 million metric tons, up 5.2 million from a month ago and up 18.9 million from 2008-09, according to the Feed Outlook, a report from the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The Czech Republic's self-sufficiency in pork decreased by over 20 percentage points to less than 75 percent between 2004 and 2008 and will probably keep falling.

Pig stocks were recorded by means of sampling at around 4 000 holdings – for the first time directly, so without assistance of towns and municipalities (as the survey bodies) – on the reference date of 1 June 2009 and yielded a total figure of 3 151 000 animals. This corresponds to a 2.9% rise in stocks compared to the date of the last census in December 2008.

China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corp (COFCO) is set to invest CNY 4 billion (USD 588 million) in Tianjin for a complex combining pig farms with a processing plant.

The Spain Agribusiness Report Q309 looks at the domestic farming industry during a global recession.