Swine news - Facilities and equipment

BMEL makes fertilizer law future-proof.

In the future, financial support will be provided for investments in new barns and renovations as well as for ongoing additional costs for higher animal husbandry standards.

Copa and Cogeca have commissioned the first comprehensive report to better understand the economic, social, and environmental impacts of the concept popularized by the European citizens' initiative "End the Cage Age".

MEPs voted to include pig farms and poultry farms with more than 200 livestock units (LSU).

The European Commission has launched an open public consultation to gather views from citizens and interested parties on the implementation of the "polluter pays" principle in the EU.

A summary of current state legislation addressing swine welfare in the United States and its implications.

Agriculture MEPs showed their support to EU farmers by rejecting the denomination of “industrial installations" for family farms.

More Danish farmers will have the opportunity to apply for subsidies to cover their slurry tanks and thus help reduce ammonia emissions.

The Member States have amended the Commission's proposal to extend the scope of the Directive to intensive livestock farms.

New law raises the EU carbon sinks target for the land use and forestry sector, which should reduce greenhouse gases in the EU in 2030 by up to 57% compared to 1990.

A Royal Decree modifying several aspects related to animal welfare affecting pig farms has been published by the BOE.

Now by 2030 at least 74% of nitrogen-sensitive nature in protected nature areas must have a healthy nitrogen level.

The revised law increases the 2030 GHG reduction target at EU level from 30% to 40% compared to 2005-levels.

The program promotes novel approaches to meat and poultry processing by implementing pioneering production system technology.

The new Slurry Infrastructure grant will help farmers improve their slurry storage.

European Green Deal: EU reaches agreement on national emission reductions from transport, buildings, waste and agriculture.

The project will contribute an additional supply of swine that can help stabilize the prices of pork in the market.

France has more than 1,400 anaerobic digestion facilities, with the agricultural sector accounting for 47% of the total.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is working with the pork and poultry industry to design traceability systems that make possible to know the origin, transit and final destination of the meat.

The concentration of pig slaughtering in larger facilities continues.

Large slaughterhouses will have one year to adapt to the new regulations and small slaughterhouses will have two.

The Federal Council has approved an administrative regulation to designate areas particularly contaminated with nitrate.

The control program will guarantee an effective and homogeneous application of the Royal Decree for the management of intensive pig farms.