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Agreement to export pig meat to China is nearing fruition as a delegation of Chinese veterinarians visits the UK next month.

The Spain Agribusiness Report Q309 looks at the domestic farming industry during a global recession.

China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corp (COFCO) is set to invest CNY 4 billion (USD 588 million) in Tianjin for a complex combining pig farms with a processing plant.

Nicaragua expects to supply Russia with 12 thousand tonnes of read meat per year.

The global economic crisis that started in late 2008 has led to a sharp curtailment of international trade, including a short-term decline in the value of global agricultural trade of around 20 percent.

The 2008 Report of the Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) on Animal Health provides a definite record of Government animal health and welfare activities across the UK.

Ongoing surveillance for respiratory diseases in Manitoba swine herds has detected the novel pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in several herds, including sow barns, nursery barns, and feeder barns in various locations in the province.

Rangeland plants may be harboring a virus that grasshoppers are transmitting to cattle, horses and other hoofed mammals.

A new national commission, the One Health Commission, has been established to spotlight the connections between human, animal, and environmental health, as well as the benefits of proactive and collaborative approaches toward better health for all.

The Governor of the Brazilian state of Santa Caterina this week signed a decree that will allow the sale of fresh pig meat and live animals outside the state free of the Tax on Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) for a period of 90 days.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) recently launched an enhanced U.S. foreign agricultural trade searchable database called the Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS).

Slovakia has asked the Commission to authorise three methods for grading pig carcases and has presented the results of its dissection trials in the second part of the protocol provided for in Article 23(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1249/2008. Examination of this request has revealed that the conditions for authorising these grading methods are fulfilled.

The Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) has announced it is to trial a series of meetings giving the chance for business operators to meet with management.

As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), some 26.9 million pigs were kept in about 67,600 holdings in Germany in May 2009.

According to Nikolai Vlasov, Deputy Head of Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia plans to remove pork import restrictions imposed due to the Influenza A H1N1. (Original in Russian. Read Google translation here).

As of July 1, 2009, the number of hogs and cattle on Canadian farms was down from the same date a year earlier.