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The Government of Canada is once again supporting the livestock industry as they develop a national traceability system. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced an investment today of more than $3.7 million to strengthen the Canadian Pork Council’s national swine traceability system, bringing the total investment for this initiative up to $7 million.

A prolonged and severe drought that has ravaged some of China's major grain-producing areas is raising concern about the next harvest, says the Ministry of Agriculture.

Throughout 2010 South Africa imported a total of 26.255,68 tons of pork meat.

The latest data published by Agreste indicates that during 2010 the slaughter of fattening pigs was very similar to that of 2009 (-0,1%) while weight increased slightly by 0,4%. On the other hand, there was a strong increase in the slaughter of piglets (+17%).

Piglet mortality in Denmark has been increasing in line with increasing litter size. Scientists from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences have reviewed existing knowledge about the problem and suggest methods to reducing it.

The latest data on the Danish swine census published by Statistics on January 1, 2011 show a 5% decrease in the swine herd, going from 12,873 million in January 2010 to 12,293 million in January 2011.

Faced with substantial losses as a result of escalating feed costs, pig farmers are launching a multi-million pound advertising campaign.

Japan has regained it foot-and-mouth disease free status. Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) approved this last week.

Pig numbers in the Czech Republic decreased by 3.5 percent year-on-year to 1.84 million last year, the lowest figure since 1946, according to data of the Czech Statistical Office (CSU).

According to the Territorial Administration of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Kaliningrad Oblast, test performed in the Kaliningrad interregional veterinary laboratory in the framework of the ASF monitoring of samples taken on February 2, 2011 from boars shot in hunting entities of the Pravdinsk district of the Kaliningrad Oblast and from a domestic pig shot during backyard slaughter in the settlement Kostyukovka of the Pravdinsk district of the Kaliningrad Oblast gave positive results on February 6, 2011.

Sales of grain from the intervention fund will begin on February 4, 2011. By the end of June 2011 the Government plans to sell at the commodity exchange up to 2.5 million metric tons to livestock producers, feed and flour mills. The start-up price of grain sales will vary by types and by provinces, but the minimum is set at 6,000 rubles ($200) per metric ton.

According to information from the Argentine National Office for the Control of Agricultural Trade (ONCCA), in 2009 5.286 tons of pork products were exported, reaching a value of 9,5 million dollars.

World food prices surged to a new historic peak in January, for the seventh consecutive month, according to the updated FAO Food Price Index, a commodity basket that regularly tracks monthly changes in global food prices.

Quality beef, lamb and pork is being exported to the West Indies by English producers for the first time in 20 years.

South Korea confirmed an additional case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the country's central region on Tuesday, after initial vaccinations of all livestock in the country have been completed, the government said Tuesday.

The European Commission has authorised under EU state aid rules the extension until 31 December 2011 of a temporary Hungarian scheme to grant aid of up to €15 000 per beneficiary.