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A study from Wageningen Livestock Research and Utrecht University concludes it is too early to stop tail docking entirely in The Netherlands.

The significant fall in antibiotic use in food-producing animals suggests that the measures taken at country level to reduce use are proving to be effective.

A total of 278 pig farmers will receive funding through the Subsidy Scheme for the Remediation of Pig Farms to close and demolish their pig farms.

The proposal will come as part of the ongoing revision of the animal welfare legislation under the Farm to Fork Strategy.

The past month has been fraught with ASF outbreaks in pigs.

So far this year, seven outbreaks of ASF have been detected in domestic pigs, three of them in the Lodzkie Voivodeship.

The number of hogs and pigs on U.S. farms was down 2% from June 2020.

The presidency concluded by emphasising the global aspect of the threat and the need to take action at international level.

The new resolution will allow the commercialization of genetically modified animals and their products.

Pig slaughter in Germany was down 4.2% in the first quarter of 2021.

The provisional political agreement reached by the European Parliament and Council on the new Common Agricultural Policy introduces a fairer, greener, more animal friendly and flexible CAP.

The proposal will allow the use of insect proteins and non-ruminant proteins (collagen and gelatin) in poultry and swine feed.

The Portal brings together information from more than 200 databases on crops, climate, and rural credit, as well as information on the fisheries industry and geo-referenced images of rural Brazil.

The volume of pork on the Chinese market has continued to increase recently. In May, the slaughter volume increased 44% year-on-year.

In the first trimester of 2021, 22,000 tons of pork were shipped. This amounted to 43% of all imports of pork in the country.

This arrangement would serve to minimize trade impacts to the Canadian swine sector while protecting the swine populations in both countries.

OIE and ASEAN will further expand regional animal disease control programmes to include African swine fever and classical swine fever.

The Commission’s Animal Welfare Platform recommends the establishment of a voluntary labelling scheme at EU-level.

The pork trade balance was again positive in 2020, both in volume and value. The trade surplus was US$ 4.03 million, while in 2019 there was a trade deficit of US$ 47.3 million.

The Chief Veterinary Inspectorate announced that inspections of slaughterhouses will intensify.

A review of the effectiveness of sampling procedures, monitoring period, and minimum radius of the protection and surveillance zones for FMD.

The province of Batangas is the first in the country to be cleared of African swine fever.

A tight market outlook for oilseeds is expected for 2020/21 and coarse grains stocks are forecast to fall below opening levels for the fourth consecutive season.

New figures show the amount of antibiotic prescribed to treat pigs on UK farms in 2020 fell by 5%.