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Thailand’s Department of Internal Trade (DIT) at the Commerce Ministry has revealed a new formula to calculate pork prices locally after mounting complaints from consumers on high prices. Under the new method, wholesale pork price is set at a farm-gate price plus 10% while the retail price is the wholesale rate plus 7%.

USDA Price forecasts for 2009 are lowered for cattle and hogs. The hog price forecast is also lowered for 2010.

The veterinary authorities have sent a final report to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

Pig production costs in Holland have come down over the last six months. Producing a piglet now costs £43.55 (at today’s exchange rates) and producing a kilo of pork costs 138p.

Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai pointed out the rising price of pork was due to the economic crisis.

The infected farm, an industrial-type holding with full production cycle applying biosecurity measures, is located in Cañuelas (Buenos Aires).

The Meat Hygiene Service is set to be taken in-house by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The FSA has announced that planning for the merger between it and the MHS, which is currently an executive agency of the FSA, will commence shortly, with the operational work of the MHS forming the core of a new FSA Operations Group.

United States trade officials have gained substantial ground in recent days to reduce the number of states suspended from exporting pork to Russia due to A-H1N1 influenza. But even when the influenza-related suspensions are fully removed, the U.S. must still resolve the issue of having more than 30 pork plants delisted by Russia for other reasons – a problem that has severely limited the flow of exports over the past several months.

The Harper Government is investing $20 million to build a vital link in the traceability chain that tracks Canadian livestock from the grocery store back to the original farm gate.

According to figures published by Estacom, between January and April 2009, the Spanish exports of meat and meat products increased by 2.4%, reaching a total value of 916.53 million euros. The sector shows a positive balance of trade of 526 million euros with a coverage rate of 235%. Despite this increase the only positive movement during these three months was for pig meat which increased by 13.6% up to 509.7 million euros and for the sale of meat based products.

A strategic move to reduce pork production has paid off for Queensland pig producers. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports, since May last year, pig meat production dropped nine per cent to just 27,000 tonnes.

A case study of a typical value chain in Canada's pork industry shows that changes at several stages, including less emphasis on cutting costs for efficiency's sake, could make "major improvements" for the chain's various links.

By the end of the current year, pig meat volumes will be almost 100,000 tonnes, or 19 percent of the pig meat import quota for 2009.

The ban on genetically modified products in Negros Occidental has caused prices of feeds to rise and compelled hog and poultry raisers in the province to put their expansion plans on hold.

Brazil's antitrust regulator imposed temporary restrictions on Perdigao's takeover of rival foodmaker Sadia.

South Korean food companies will resume pork exports to Japan after being shut out of the market for nine years, the government said Friday.