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The agricultural policy priorities of the Presidency will include the new animal health law.

Increased demand for meats will mostly stem from large economies in Asia, crude oil exporting countries and Latin America, where income gains are expected to be significant.

Inventory of frozen pork is down about 18.8% from last year.

Despite a decline in pig population by 1.7% (-3.2% for sows), the EU pig meat production is expected to remain stable in 2012 and then to decline by 2% the following year.

Russia signed a protocol on accession to the world trade club on December 16, 2011 after 18 years of talks.

UK pork exports to end of April continue their steady upwards trend with a rise of 7.23%.

Since the swine are from brucellosis and PRV free herds, they will not need to be tested for those diseases prior to change of ownership at the Texas market.

The general grain exports from Ukraine in the new MY (July 2012 - June 2013) may total nearly 26 mln tonnes.

As a result of rising feed prices, pig production costs are at a record high — 173p a kilo.

The signing of Strategic Plan for Strengthening Agricultural Cooperation will usher the existing agricultural cooperation into a new stage featuring all-round and in-depth cooperation as well as broader prospects.

The European Commission has approved 20 programmes to promote agricultural products in the European Union and in third countries.

U.S. farmers planted 96.4 million acres of corn, up 5 percent from last year, making it the highest corn acreage in the last 75 years.

Exports of some specific products have grown faster than the average, for example, exports of pork are up by almost 120%, which translates into new trade of almost € 200 million.

The proposed transaction would not raise any horizontal competition concerns as the parties mostly operate in different Member States. In those markets where the parties' activities do overlap, namely certain markets for the supply of category 3 animal fats and proteins and the supply of category 2 animal meals, they will still face sufficiently strong competition after the merger to exclude competitive concerns.

The study found that the economic development associated with hog production and exporting pork contributes $9.28 billion to the Canadian economy.

WTO confirmed that the United States Country-of-Origin Labelling (COOL) measure discriminates against Canadian livestock and is inconsistent with the WTO trade obligations of the United States.