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Foreign companies and individuals will not be allowed to directly sell imported animal feed and feed additives in China, a draft regulation made public said.

Over the next four years, a federal investment of $1.2 million will help Canadian Young Farmers' Forum (CYFF) provide opportunities to educate and develop young and beginning farmers across the country.

According to USDA Agricultural Projections to 2019, global economic recovery with steady growth provides an improved foundation for demand for crops over the next several years and through the remainder of the projection period to 2019.

The demand for animal feed raw materials in Thailand is forecast to be higher in 2010 in line with an expected rise in animal population.

USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of more than $18 million in grants to help train, educate and enhance the sustainability of the next generation of farmers through the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP).

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry suspended imports of pork and processed pork from Austria on Tuesday after finding a shipment of sausages from an Austrian company that contained banned beef.

The order ending Ontario Pork's days as a mandatory single-desk hog marketing agency has been overturned -- that is, if the province's hog producers want it to be. A ruling Tuesday from the province's Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal reinstates sections of the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Regulations that were revoked in October 2008 by the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission.

According to a market research report, " Five year Forecast and Analysis on the United States Hog Market" by Doane Advisory Service, over the 23 month period, budgets show losses averaging $22.50 per head. With hog slaughter over that period totaling more than 220 million head, a total of nearly $5 billion in this downturn.

At January 1, Canadian hog producers had an estimated 11.6 million hogs on their farms, down 4.5% from January 2009. Since January 2009 there has been a 4.3% decrease in the breeding herd, mainly sows and gilts. The inventory of sows is estimated at 1.3 million head.

Indonesia has lifted a temporary ban on imports of pork and its by-products after they were ruled out being the source of human swine flu.

The European Commission authorised a Belgian scheme with a budget of €2.73 million which aims at supporting farmers in Flanders who encounter difficulties as a result of the current economic crisis. Aid under this scheme can be granted until 31 December 2010 and will take the form of interest subsidies and guarantees.