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According to the 2012 June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture, the UK pig herd was slightly larger than a year earlier.

Since November 1st the Chinese authorities have formally admitted the entrance of pig feet produced in Holland.

The participants agreed on the urgent need to define a common strategy for the future of the swine industry.

Global cereal production in 2012 is expected to fall by 2.7 percent from previous year’s record crop.

The use of antibiotics in Dutch livestock farms has gone down by 51 percent in the last three years.

Hungary has informed the Commission about the recent evolution of the situation with respect to the Classical Swine Fever in the territory of the county of Nógrád.

The Government demanded stronger labelling across the whole of the EU, and is now putting the EU rules into action in the UK.

The new rules provide an incentive to make sure that medicine is given only to individual animals in need of treatment.

Pork exports were 30 percent higher than a year ago in volume and up 22 percent in value.

The number of pigs varied between 3 million and 5.3 million in the past ten years.

MEPs vow to promote prudent-use guidelines aimed at reducing non-essential and inappropriate exposure to antimicrobials in human and veterinary medicine, livestock farming, agriculture, aquaculture and horticulture.

The OIE “Improved Animal Welfare Programme” aims to improve the welfare of farm animals during transport and at slaughterhouses.

If Japan decides to accept pork from Jalisco, it could help the Latin American country capitalize further on Japan's preferential pork import tariff quota.

The Cereals/Farmers Modernization Fund is a voluntary act so the cereals producers and the farmers are able to generate synergies.

The task team and federal-provincial-territorial deliberations, government and industry officials have agreed on immediate actions to help the hog sector deal with short term financial pressures.

The deadline for submission of applications under the revised TAMS Sow Welfare Scheme was being extended from end-October 2012 to end-January 2013.