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Last May three new regulations, whose purpose is to increase the monitoring abilities of the SAG (Agricultural and Farming Service) on animal welfare, were approved.

Many buildings are at least 20 years old but producers can’t invest in replacements.

The goal of the government is to develop in France, in year 2020, 1,000 biogas plants at the farms.

Sow Welfare Scheme would be extended for a final time from 2 April 2013 to Friday, 3 May 2013.

The conditions to be met by producers who have not completed the process of adapting to the new regulations for accomodating breeder sows are established.

Both sides pledged to further cooperation in livestock production with focus on pig-farming cooperation between enterprises and researchers from both sides to speed up the improvement of pig breeding system and uplift the pig-farming level in China.

The Agriculture Ministry wants all 26 of Israel's pig farms to be moved from the north of the country to the south.

The Minister accordingly announced that he is increasing the current investment ceiling of €300,000 per holding to €500,000.

A survey conducted by the University of Missouri on behalf of the National Pork Producers Council shows only about 17 percent of sows in the U.S. are currently housed in open pen gestation.

According to the latest study on the French pig sector by CGAAER, as of 2002 the sector has been sluggish.

In recent years, a growing number of major U.S. companies that demand and supply pork products have adopted strategies that explicitly move away from direct or indirect use of gestation crates in pork production.

Australian pork producers can now attain Free Range Certification under a newly developed, on-farm, free range standard, within the APIQ program.

Around one thousand rural farms and businesses will soon turn business plans into reality as the first grants from the new £20 million Farming and Forestry Improvement Scheme are approved by Defra.

Fifty million leva have been secured for restructuring of the pig and poultry breeding sectors, announced the Minister of Agriculture and Food Dr. Miroslav Naydenov.

The cabinet has no plans to introduce a maximum size for factory farms and there are so few at the moment there is no need for the government to intervene, junior environment minister Henk Bleker told parliament on Wednesday.

Preparatory work for the future development of animal based measures for assessing the welfare of weaned, growing and fattening pigs including aspects related to space allowance, floor types, tail biting and need for tail docking.