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With 14,851 tonnes, the Spanish exports of cured ham and shoulder have grown by 10.1% during the first six months of 2014 with respect to the same period in 2013.

FAO's monthly food price index registered another drop in August, continuing a 5-month downward run and reaching its lowest level since September 2010.

For January-July, exports established a record pace in both volume (1.32 million mt, +7 percent) and value ($4.0 billion).

The shipment, which consisted of 24,500 kilos of boneless sirloin, will be used in the production of sausages.

United States and Canadian inventory of all hogs and pigs for June 2014 was 75.1 million head. This was down 4 percent from June 2013, and down 5 percent from June 2012.

Despite very strong June wholesale pork prices (+21 percent over June 2013 of the Wholesale Carcass Cutout), U.S. pork exports in June were more than 4 percent higher than a year ago.

The SAGARPA (Ministry of Agriculture, Stockbreeding, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food) and the Mexican pig production chain are carrying out different actions for the recognition of the pig health status in Mexico and the export markets expansion.

The acquisition of Hillshire by Tyson Foods Inc. would combine two major purchasers of sows from farmers in the United States and eliminate the benefit farmers have received from the competition between Hillshire and Tyson’s Heinold Hog Markets.

The European Commission has opened a new section on its website to inform about relevant news on the EU measures resulting from the Russian import ban.

Russia is the main destination for the Brazilian pork and beef exports.

These measures involve the EU, US, Canada, Norway and Australia, and will extend for a year.

Under this proposed rule, such pork and pork products would have to be derived from swine raised on farms meeting stringent sanitary and biosecurity requirements.

After a period of four days when the country's borders were closed to Lithuanian pork products, the Veterinary and Food Board lifted the ban.

Especially in the exporting countries impacted by the porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDv), hog and pork prices will continue to break records in the remainder of Q3 and into Q4.