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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.

Nearly two-thirds of China’s consumers stopped eating pork in the early stages of the H1N1 influenza outbreak this year, and more than one in five consumers in the world’s largest pork market still believe that eating pork can result in catching the flu virus, according to a survey of 1,200 Chinese consumers commissioned last month by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Russia may raise quotas for beef imports and cut allocations for pork and poultry next year.

Net farm income is forecast to be $54.0 billion in 2009, down $33.2 billion (38 percent) from the preliminary estimate of $87.2 billion for 2008. The 2009 forecast is $9 billion below the average of $63.2 billion in net farm income earned in the previous 10 years.

After the evaluation of the Mexican veterinary services, el Agriffod and Veterinary Authority of SINGAPUR (AVA) informed Mexico of the possibility that it may export pig meat and pig products. Singapure will now begin the process of creating a listing of TIF establishments as these had asked for.(Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

The Caribbean has been a bright spot for U.S. meat exports so far this year, with pork, beef and lamb exports all showing double-digit volume increases over the first half of 2008.

Taking into consideration the improvement of the situation connected with swine erysipelas, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance coordinated DG-SANCO to correct the veterinary certificate for slaughter pigs exported from the European Union to the Russian Federation.

Agreement to export pig meat to China is nearing fruition as a delegation of Chinese veterinarians visits the UK next month.

The Spain Agribusiness Report Q309 looks at the domestic farming industry during a global recession.

China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corp (COFCO) is set to invest CNY 4 billion (USD 588 million) in Tianjin for a complex combining pig farms with a processing plant.

Nicaragua expects to supply Russia with 12 thousand tonnes of read meat per year.

The global economic crisis that started in late 2008 has led to a sharp curtailment of international trade, including a short-term decline in the value of global agricultural trade of around 20 percent.

Figures for May 2009 indicate a 2.1% decrease in French porcine livestock compared to the previous year, with a total of 14.3 million head, 313,000 fewer than the previous year.

The Governor of the Brazilian state of Santa Caterina this week signed a decree that will allow the sale of fresh pig meat and live animals outside the state free of the Tax on Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) for a period of 90 days.