EU German Presidency outlines Agriculture and Food Security priorities
The Presidency will focus on animal welfare, digitalisation and reducing food waste and Farm to fork.
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Tool that allows you to calculate the replacement rate in your farm
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Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
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The Presidency will focus on animal welfare, digitalisation and reducing food waste and Farm to fork.
An additional $14 billion dollars is available for agricultural producers who continue to face market disruptions and associated costs because of COVID-19.
Germany's economic stimulus package for 2020 and 2021 will allocate a total of 300 million euros for barn remodeling that promotes greater animal welfare.
This will be the first laboratory facility in the U.S. to provide BSL-4 laboratories capable of housing cattle and other large livestock, and will eventually replace the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
The Federal Council has approved the General Administrative Regulation for the designation of nitrate contaminated and eutrophicated areas.
The modern animal disease laboratory will ultimately help protect the livestock industries in Central Luzon from diseases like ASF and FMD.
The Federal Council now requires farrowing pens to have an area of 6.5 m².
So far this year, more than 63 million tons of grain have been harvested.
The DGCCRF has carried out inspections to verify compliance with the rules of labelling and traceability of meat: pork, beef, poultry, and lamb.
The 261 pig farms left empty due to African swine fever can now be gradually restocked.
The plan guides agency efforts to tackle foodborne pathogens.
In the first quarter of 2020, German companies produced 37% more meat substitute products than for the same period in 2019.
On Friday, 6 new cases were confirmed, raising the total, so far, to 13 positive cases.