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Foodservice closures and logistical challenges have not thwarted pigmeat demand. Heavy carcass weights increased production.

Figures suggest that the production of pigmeat in the EU was not immediately affected by the containment measures for the COVID-19 pandemic.

New regulations for pig farming have been proposed by the Bundesrat including provisions for sow and pig housing.

The Ministry of Agriculture has launched an action plan for controlling temperatures in animal transportation during the summer of 2020, which affects transports longer than 8 hours.

During the first quarter of 2020, the EU27 agri-food trade was up 4.7% from Q1 of 2019, despite the COVID-19 pandemic developing.

The industrial production of compound feed totaled 26,278,430 t in 2019, representing a 3.8% increase from 2018, and making Spain the leading producer of animal feed in Europe.

Does “agri-bashing” impact farmers’ moods? The EU Farmers’ Confidence
Barometer conducted an initial survey to assess the reality of this concept.

MEPs decided to set up an inquiry committee to look into alleged breaches in the application of EU animal welfare rules during transport within and outside the EU.

In light of amending the Fertiliser Ordinance comes the uniform designation of nitrate-polluted areas in Germany.

Federal and state governments and the meat industry discuss readjustment along the entire chain: improved animal welfare, fair prices, and better working conditions.

After strong growth in the 1960s and 1970s, per capita meat consumption stabilized in the 1980s and has been declining since the early 1990s.

Pig population continues to decline: -2.3% compared with the previous year.

In the period January - April 2020, pork exports to China more than doubled.

For the first time China accounted for more than half of UK fresh and frozen pork exports in April. Overall export was up, and import prices remained higher than last year.

During the first three months of 2020, the volume of French pork exports to the EU and third countries increased.

Pork consumption has increased by more than 40% over the last 5 years.

Countries achieve new disease statuses for classical swine fever and foot and mouth disease, declared by the OIE.

Chinese customs halted pork imports from the German company, Tönnies, where hundreds of slaughterhouse workers have tested positive for COVID-19.