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Defra has launched a public consultation on the implementation of new European legislation concerning the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcases and the reporting of prices.

The first Korean pork exported to Japan in nine years will leave port Monday according to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries yesterday.

Provisional Defra Pig census results published this week report a 5.5% increase in the English breeding herd during the past twelve months.

The European Commission has granted clearance under the EU Merger Regulation to the acquisition of sole control of Merial of the US by Sanofi-Aventis of France.

For 2009 and 2010, U.S. feed grain production is forecast at 344.8 million metric tons, up 5.2 million from a month ago and up 18.9 million from 2008-09, according to the Feed Outlook, a report from the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Despite the challenges facing the industry worldwide, meat consumption and international trade are increasing, adding that global meat consumption is forecast to grow by 2% per year up to 2018 to more than 320 million tonnes.

During the first six months of 2009, the Spanish meat sector suffered a standstill in exports. In fresh meat, while all other meat has suffered decreases, Spain continues to base its exports in pig meat, which reached a higher value than in 2008, arriving to 797.34 million euros which is 7.2% higher than for the same period of the previous year. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

After negotiations between the Agriculture Ministeries of Brazil and the Phillipines, Brazil can begin exporting refrigerated pig meat from Santa Catarina to the Phillipines. (Original in Portuguese. Read Google translation here).

January through July exports of U.S. pork and beef are lagging behind last year’s pace amid a difficult global economic climate and lingering effects from the H1N1 influenza outbreak.

Pigmeat prices have benefited from a combination of lower slaughterings in the first half of the year, less competitive imports and better than expected consumer demand.

Although the pork price in China has risen for 13 weeks straight, it is not likely to trigger an inflation as it did previously, economists and industry analysts observed.

The Council took note of the request made by the French delegation and supported by other delegations to reintroduce export refunds in support of the pig meat sector.

A review of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is to be carried out by the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs.

Australia is gradually restoring its positions of one of the major red meat exporters to Russia and the CIS countries (former Soviet states), most Russian experts believe.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced USDA's intention to purchase an additional $30 million in pork products in FY 2009 for federal food and nutrition assistance programs.

Pig stocks were recorded by means of sampling at around 4 000 holdings – for the first time directly, so without assistance of towns and municipalities (as the survey bodies) – on the reference date of 1 June 2009 and yielded a total figure of 3 151 000 animals. This corresponds to a 2.9% rise in stocks compared to the date of the last census in December 2008.