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For 2010-11, total exports are forecast to be slightly lower than 2009-10 due to lower exports of wheat (ex-durum), canola, oats and flaxseed.

Data from China's Customs show that frozen pork exports recorded 110,000 tonnes in 2010, or an increase of 26.3% from the previous year.

China's Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday announced it had included pork, mutton, beef and their by-products onto the list of bulk agricultural products required for import reporting as of April 1.

The European Commission has authorised under EU state aid rules the extension until 31 December 2011 of a temporary Dutch scheme to grant aid of up to € 15 000 per beneficiary.

South Korea will raise the volume limit of imported pork subject to its tariff quota system, in a bid to tame rising food costs.

A federally-funded exit program for cash-strapped hog producers has officially earmarked all available cash as of Jan. 31 and is now being wound down.

EU Healthcare Commissioner John Dalli and Minister of Agriculture and Food Dr. Miroslav Naydenov held a business meeting held at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

The Government of Canada is once again supporting the livestock industry as they develop a national traceability system. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced an investment today of more than $3.7 million to strengthen the Canadian Pork Council’s national swine traceability system, bringing the total investment for this initiative up to $7 million.

A prolonged and severe drought that has ravaged some of China's major grain-producing areas is raising concern about the next harvest, says the Ministry of Agriculture.

Faced with substantial losses as a result of escalating feed costs, pig farmers are launching a multi-million pound advertising campaign.

Pig numbers in the Czech Republic decreased by 3.5 percent year-on-year to 1.84 million last year, the lowest figure since 1946, according to data of the Czech Statistical Office (CSU).

Sales of grain from the intervention fund will begin on February 4, 2011. By the end of June 2011 the Government plans to sell at the commodity exchange up to 2.5 million metric tons to livestock producers, feed and flour mills. The start-up price of grain sales will vary by types and by provinces, but the minimum is set at 6,000 rubles ($200) per metric ton.

According to information from the Argentine National Office for the Control of Agricultural Trade (ONCCA), in 2009 5.286 tons of pork products were exported, reaching a value of 9,5 million dollars.

World food prices surged to a new historic peak in January, for the seventh consecutive month, according to the updated FAO Food Price Index, a commodity basket that regularly tracks monthly changes in global food prices.

Quality beef, lamb and pork is being exported to the West Indies by English producers for the first time in 20 years.

According to a report published in the yearly register of the Office of Farming Policy (Opypa) carried out by Eduardo Errea and titled “Recent hog evolution and perspectives”, throughout 2010 the global supply of pork meat in Uruguay increased by 10%, reverting 2009’s trend and taking up a trend reminiscent of that of 2006 and 2007.