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MIFAFF announced that it would limit the initial 70,000 MT duty free tariff rate quota for fresh/frozen pork bellies announced for the period April-June to 20,000 MT.

Around one thousand rural farms and businesses will soon turn business plans into reality as the first grants from the new £20 million Farming and Forestry Improvement Scheme are approved by Defra.

Argentina sent an official notice allowing the river traffic of raw bovine offal and pork.

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2012 was 64.9 million head.

The order prohibits certain uses of the cephalosporin (excluding cephapirin) class of antimicrobial drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys.

Despite the decline of 1.7% in per capita consumption, pork is still the favorite.

Great efforts have been made and favourable results achieved in the last decade in the eradication of the disease both from domestic pigs and more recently in wild boar.

Exports of UK livestock products rose to £2.325* billion in 2011, an increase of 22% from 2010.

The new regulation provides a specific control of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs by different operators in the feed chain.

Exports of pork increased over the last year and amounted to 995,319 tons.

The health-minded body Porc Bretagne OVS has decided to launch a device for protecting the health status of the region.

The Top-10 companies (Tönnies, Vion, Westfleisch, Danish Crown, Vogler, Böseler Goldschmaus, Müller Gruppe, BMR Schlachthof, Tummel and Gausepohl) are almost constantly carrying out 75 % of all pig slaughters.

Only 12 Member States have confirmed that they expect their producers to be fully compliant with the new regulations by the end of the year.

Iowa pork producers have reached a new milestone as 15,000 Iowa pork producers, employees and others with pork industry interests have been certified through the Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) Plus® program.

According to the Rosstat, live-weight pork production increased 3.6% in 2011 over 2010.

Details from the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) show a decrease of 1.20% in the number of sows.