Swine news - Economy

2017 was a record-breaking year for U.S. red meat exports, with beef export value exceeding $7 billion for only the second time and pork exports easily surpassing the previous year’s volume record, according to data released by USDA and compiled by USMEF.

A new project – OK-Net EcoFeed – aimed at helping organic pig and poultry farmers in achieving the goal of 100% use of organic and regional feed was launched.

The pig sector ends a historic 2017 exceeding €5,000 million in exports.

Despite the late-year slide, the FAO Food Price Index averaged 174.6 points in 2017, up 8.2 percent from 2016 and reaching the highest annual average since 2014.

China’s pork imports have been slowing down lately, but are expected to pick up again over the rest of the year, according to RaboResearch’s latest global Pork Quarterly.

Pig production record: more than 6 million pigs slaughtered.

Russia says it has fully implemented the rulings within the reasonable period of time.

Poland encouraged the Commission to take action among others through: aid for private storage...

The aim of this broad enquiry is to get a general picture of the strengths and the weaknesses of the rural development policy.

As a result of eleven months of 2017, pork accounted for 35.1% of the total volume of industrial meat production.

The European Commission has referred the proposed transaction between Smithfield Foods of the US and Pini Polonia of Poland to the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) at its request. Both companies are active in the slaughtering of pigs in Poland.

The value of EU agri-food exports in November 2017, now at EUR 12.7 billion, increased impressively by almost EUR 1 billion compared to November 2016.

The value of the meat exports from Santa Catarina reached USD2,600 million in 2017.

FAO points the way for low-carbon animal products to support nutrition and rural livelihoods.

The Minister of Agriculture of Brazil, Mr Blairo Maggi, highlighted that the agriculture and livestock sector exports reached USD96,100 million in 2017: an increase by 13%.

Between January and November 2017, Russian pig production increased by 6.5%.

During the first nine months of 2017, the drop in pig slaughterings in France was more noticeable than at a European level: -2.7% of heads.

The Commission will give additional funding of €169 million to promote EU agricultural products throughout the world - €27 million more than in 2017.

Thanks to the EU budget guarantee, the EIB was able to offer the company this loan and as a result we will see more R&D activity in rural areas in Bulgaria, leading to growth in the economy and new jobs created.

At a special meeting of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 3 January, a European Union request for authorization to suspend concessions or other obligations with respect to the Russian Federation in a dispute over import restrictions on pig products was referred to arbitration.

The pig population increased by approximately 378,000, or 1.4%, from May 2017.

This is the trimester with the best figures since official records of livestock production statistics began.

Although Russia has accepted the WTO’s recommendations, the ban still goes on due to the Russian embargo to several countries (among them all the EU countries) due to political reasons.

The groups D’Aucy and Triskalia have announced their intention of joining forces to build a new Breton cooperative agrifood project. They will therefore become a leading actor, anchored in their region.