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Canada: Government invests in British Columbia's organic farming sector

The Government of Canada announced an investment of up to $900,000 to help the Certified Organic Associations of BC implement a new and comprehensive market development strategy for the organics industry.

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Mexico: the pork sector recovered quickly from H1N1 epidemic

The pork sector recovered quickly from April's H1N1 epidemic. Pork production for 2009 have fallen by only 0.6% y-o-y.

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Philippines: hog production inched up 1.2% in 2009

Philippine hog production rose by a mere 1.2% in 2009, but this is still better than the 1.6% contraction it suffered in 2008.

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Russia set to reduce dependence on food imports

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday approved a plan to boost domestic food production and reduce the country's dependence on imports.

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Czech Republic - Meat production drops by 7.2%

Domestic meat production decreased by 7.2 percent year-on-year to 556,066 tonnes in slaughter weight last year, with pork production falling most, the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) announced Friday.

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OJSC Cherkizovo Group: trading update for full year 2009

During the year Cherkizovo’s new pork farms in Lipetsk and Tambov operated at close to full capacity, and sales volumes in the pork division in 2009 increased by 38%.

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Vietnam to restructure its livestock industry

Vietnam plans to restructure its livestock industry to ensure sufficient meat production for the growing populations and lift its competitiveness in the overseas market.

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Fattening conditions

With the current part you can assess your knowledge on pig welfare during the fattening phase: How much space do they need?, What is the maximum level of noise?, etc.

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Recent update on swine health in Asian swine industries

More advanced scientific knowledge and technology on swine health is needed for the swine producing countries in Asia, in order that they can develop to become competitive in global swine business in the future.

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Canada - Last call announced for hog farm exit program

Another 145 bidders in the federally-funded hog farm transition program (HFTP) will share $25.23 million to fold up their hog operations for at least three years.

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Craig Mostyn Group buys Great Southern Pig Company from Paspaley Group

Craig Mostyn Group (CMG) and Paspaley Group jointly announced the purchase, effective February 1, 2010, by CMG of Great Southern Pig Company (GSP) business operations based at its two outdoor piggeries at Albany and Narrogin, Western Australia.

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Latin American Network for improving pig production

109 researchers from 14 countries will take part in this network funded by CYTED and intended for improving pigmeat production through innovative, sustainable production systems.

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Ukraine – Increase in pig stocks

In Ukraine, the cattle population to the deadline of 1 January 2010 fell an annual perspective, while increasing the number of pigs and poultry.

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John Morrell to Close Sioux City, Iowa Plant

John Morrell & Co., a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, Inc., announced that it would permanently close its hog processing and fresh meat fabrication plant located in Sioux City, Iowa, effective April 20, 2010. The Sioux City plant processes hogs and produces boneless loins and other fresh pork products.

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Rattlerow Seghers expands their nucleus program in China

The Joint Venture partners HEBEI Yufeng Jing An breeding Co. Ltd. and Rattlerow Seghers group have agreed to increase the nucleus program to maintain around 400.000 commercial sows within the next three years.

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Determining an optimum lysine:calorie ratio for barrows and gilts in a commercial finishing facility

The dietary lysine optimization may reduce feed cost per kilogram of gain in pigs during the growing-finishing phase