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The Danish pig industry has pledged to cut exports of piglets in a bid to boost Denmark's economic growth and increase pig production in the country.

To control the domestic pig herd growth, MIFAFF is expected to slaughter 80,000 head of low producing sows.

Rabobank expects global hog prices to remain under pressure in the first part of Q4 followed by a price recovery towards the end of the year and into 2013.

At present the average pig price is less than 152p per kg, resulting in an average loss of over £14 on every pig produced.

U.S. – Panama Trade Promotion Authority will go into effect on October 31, 2012.

Until November 15-20, 2012, the potential of the grain exports (5-5.3 mln tonnes) can be completed.

From now on, Mexico is the tenth member of the TPP. This allows Mexico to fully participate and have a bearing on the negotiations of all the matters that are a part of this initiative.

The European Commission approved to allow Croatia to export, without limitations, fresh pig meat and pig meat products to the European Union markets.

The State Duma has approved an extension to the zero income tax regime for agricultural producers for an unlimited period of time.

The CPC sees important potential benefits from a TPP agreement, including: providing Canada the means of securing, or even enhancing, its terms of trade with existing TPP participants.

The current fixed rate per-kilogram tariff will change to a varying percentages tariff system depending on the amount of meat products and cheeses to be imported.

On Wednesday, October 3 took place in Brussels a conference on animal health and its cost: "Economics of Animal Health: a price worth paying?".

China has recently been importing over 0.4 million tonnes of pork per year, in a world market with trade of less than 7 million tonnes per year.

Rabobank predicts a further 2 percent decline in pork production in 2014.

Researchers estimated that PRRS was costing the swine industry $66.7 million per year in the breeding-farrowing phase, $201.34 million per year in nursery pigs and $292.23 million per year in finishing pigs.

The import of live pigs from Italy in the first half of 2012 was characterized by an overall decrease of 13.3% compared to 2011.