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The new legislation, based on a Commission proposal from 2008, considerably simplifies the existing procedures and it will help promote innovation and competitiveness in the European feed sector. It is also expected to lead to a more integrated single market for feed by reducing the administrative burden for feed operators. The regulation was endorsed by the European Parliament on February 5 and is expected to enter into force later this year.

The majority of East Anglia pigs are now in the region’s producer-run Swine Dysentery Eradication (Control) Scheme. And no breeding units in the scheme are positive for the disease.

The Council reached political agreement on a regulation improving welfare of animals at slaughter (13312/08).

Due to the favorable situation on the classical swine fever in the territory of the Slovak Republic the Rosselkhoznadzor Instructions dd. April 22, 2008 No. FS-NV-2/3795 and No. FS-EN-2/2349 cease to be in force since June 8, 2009.

Headed by Professor George Milne of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, researchers at The University of Western Australia (UWA) have concluded that a classical swine fever outbreak, starting in north Queensland, could spread widely through Australia’s 20 million feral pigs, potentially posing a risk to Australia’s domestic pig population.

The debate was only the second on farming in six years. It covered many of the issues affecting livestock farming including TB, EID, cost sharing, bluetongue vaccination, labelling, the environment, fallen stock, food security, recruitment and training, regulation and procurement.

In 2008, Denmark had approximately 5,800 farms with pig production. The farms produced a total of 27.4 mill pigs. The co-operatively owned slaughterhouses slaughtered 19 mill pigs (19.6 mill in 2007).

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is distributing $176 million in Recovery Act funding to upgrade laboratory buildings and support facilities at research locations across the country.

The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) meat and livestock data shows pig meat production crashed in April to 268,000 tonnes, down 11 per cent on last year to its lowest level since June 1991, while the number of pigs slaughtered also declined by 11 per cent to 373,000. Pork prices hit $3.71 a kilogram in late May, up from around $2.71 a kilo at the same time last year, despite some downward pressure from the swine flu outbreak.

Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob's warns that the government would consider making pork a controlled item if the ex-farm price of pig continued to increase.

The Management Committee for Direct Payments yesterday gave a positive opinion to a Commission proposal to allow direct aid payments to farmers under the Single Payment Scheme and the Single Area Payment Scheme to be advanced to the 16th October 2009. This follows an undertaking by Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel at the last Agriculture Council to allow earlier payments to help farmers, notably milk producers, who face cash flow problems because of low prices. The measure will be formally adopted in the next few weeks. Member States may pay up to 70 percent of the annual payment from 16 October. Payments are normally only possible from 1 December each year.

The State Statistics Committee informs that for May 2009 meat production reached 23,200 tons versus 24,400 tons in April, 24,100 tons in March 2009, 23,655 tons in February 2009, 24,645 tons in January 2009 and 24,400 tons in March 2008. For Jan-May 2009 it was produced 120,000 tons of meat versus 118,100 tons for 2008 same term (rise of 1.7%) and 302,800 tons in 2008. In December 2008 it was produced 25,300 tons of meat versus 25,900 tons in December 2007.

A group of U.S. pork producers who proposed the Producer Retirement Program announced Thursday that the sow cull program will not take effect due to a lack of participation.

The National Congress of Chile passed by 109 votes the last stage of the motion that allows the Agriculture and Livestock Service (Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero, SAG) to establish the regulations for a Traceability System for meat and livestock, a programme developed by the entity since 2004 that originally only included bovines and that since June 2008 has incorporated other animal species such as ovines, caprines, porcines, equines and South American domestic camelids. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

A first-of-its-kind agreement has been reached between the U.S. and Canada that will expand opportunities for organic producers in both countries, announced Kathleen Merrigan, Agriculture Deputy Secretary. The "equivalency agreement" follows a review by both nations of each other's organic certification program and a determination that products meeting the standard in the U.S. can be sold as organic in Canada, and vice versa.

Meat production including by-products of the first grade grew 11.6% to 1.3m tons in January – May 2009 in Russia, if compared to the same period in 2008, Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) reports.