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Pork production could expand by 7.3%, to 750,000 tonnes.

All products meeting the terms of the partnership can be traded and labelled as certified organic produce, meat, cereal, or wine.

The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 179 points, half a percent (1 point) above its December value. Prices of the various meat types followed mixed directions, with pig meat up 2.8 percent.

The new association will be one of the larger trade groups in the global meat trade, with more than 700 member companies in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and other countries.

On Feb. 7, the US Department of Agriculture’s Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration’s (GIPSA) final rule involving contracts for poultry and swine went into effect.

Pork exports totaled 2.255 million metric tons, breaking the previous volume record of 2.052 million metric tons established in 2008.

A zero-duty tariff-rate quota for 70,000 MT of fresh and frozen pork bellies and pork for processing is opened from January 1- March 31.

The abattoirs will likely be built in Bulacan Province, north of Manila and in Batangas Province, south of Manila.

Prices for piglets fell even as prices for fattening pigs rose.

According to preliminary data of Statistics Estonia, at the end of the year, there were 362,200 pigs in Estonia.

The forecast of grain exports from Russia became increased to the level of 27 mln tonnes.

The increase is due in particular to the rise in the consumption of pork, which has grown to reach 460,000 tons.

Last year, United Kingdom pig slaughterings were their highest since 2002, at 9.8m head — up six percent on the previous year.

Ukraine imported 216,000 tons of meat in 2011 and 342,100 tons in 2010.

The US and Canada have already suspended import duties. Suspending these duties will enable Member States to sell their chocolate, pork...

The European Parliament published last January 19 a Resolution on the farm input supply chain in which it calls on the Commission and Member States to improve the transparency of farm input prices.