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BPEX has published outline guidance on strategic de-stocking and reviewing slaughter weight decisions for producers who for financial or other reasons are contemplating the decision to cease production.

The import of live pigs from Italy in the first half of 2012 was characterized by an overall decrease of 13.3% compared to 2011.

Frozen pork supplies were up 6 percent from the previous month and up 31 percent from last year.

By September 1, there were 314 million bushels of corn stored on U.S. farms, down slightly from September 2011.

The facility will be completed by the end of 2013 and will become available for research for academia and private companies.

Pork exports to third countries increased by 2.6% over the same period last year, reaching 1,520,802 tons.

Leading the field is once again the pork and beef slaughterer Tönnies from Rheda-Wiedenbrück.

China's pork production in 2013 is forecast to rise about two percent to 52.65 MMT.

United States hog producers intend to have 2.85 million sows farrow during the September-November 2012 quarter, down 3 percent from the actual farrowings during the same period in 2011, and down 1 percent from 2010.

The Danish government has therefore passed a law introducing 10-metre wide buffer strips of non-cultivated land along all lakes and watercourses in the country side toiling 50.000 hectares.

In an effort to promote product safety, China plans to spend 72.02 billion yuan (11.35 billion U.S. dollars) during the 2011-2015 period on improving a quality inspection system for farm produce.

A strategy to minimise the use of antibiotics constitutes the centrepiece of the amending act. It will enable the surveillance authorities to assess the frequency of antibiotic treatment on a farm and to compare it with other farms.

Total wheat stocks decreased 18.1% to 5.9 million tonnes, mostly the result of a decline of 890 500 tonnes (-33.3%) in on-farm stocks.

The Commission has adopted a proposal designed to apply new rules with regard to the publication of information on the beneficiaries of European agricultural funds.

As fixing a MRL is considered as setting a threshold under which the use the product is considered as safe, the new standard fixed by the Codex can be considered de facto as an authorisation of using ractopamine below the fixed MRL in food producing animals.

Mexican pork production forecast is 1.25 MMT CWE, approximately 2.5 percent higher than the 2012 Post estimate.