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In order to assist pork producers in Minnesota to demonstrate their commitment to consumers and the general public, University of Minnesota Extension has teamed up with the Minnesota Pork Board to provide training and certification sessions for producers to become individually certified in Pork Quality Assurance Plus (PQA+) and Transport Quality Assurance (TQA) programs.

After meeting with Russian Minister of Agriculture Elena Elena Skrynnik, Brasilian Minister Reinhold Stephanes announced Russia’s government decision of enabling meat processing plants from Santa Catarina State to export meat products to Russia. (Original in Portuguese. Read Google translation here).

During April over 640,000 weaners were exported — a staggering increase of 61 percent on April last year. Total export of piglets during the first four months of this year are up over 40 percent on the same period last year.

The OIE has reported 3 new outbreaks of classical swine fever in Rio Grande Do Norte and 1 in Amapá. The three new outbreaks in Rio Grande Do Norte were detected by the surveillance programme and have an epidemiological link with the "Jucurutu 1" outbreak, where animals from the farm considered to be the index farm were introduced. All farms are for self-consumption or local trade. The State of Rio Grande do Norte is located outside the area declared at a national level as free of classical swine fever. The Animal Health Department has approved the vaccination of all pigs of the State of Rio Grande do Norte. Vaccination remains prohibited in the rest of the country. In Amapaá, the affected farm, of a traditional type, is for self-consumption. The State of Amapá is located outside the area declared at a national level as free of classical swine fever. Surveillance and epidemiological investigation are continuing.

Figures from TNS Worldpanel show in the 52-weeks May 08-09 household spending on fresh and frozen meat was almost nine percent higher, with pork sales proving the most buoyant.

Fertiliser prices have soared over the last three years and, though nitrogen and phosphate prices have fallen recently, interest in making best use of manures and saving on fertiliser inputs remains at a high level. Conventional laboratory analysis of manures is expensive, slow and, for solids, can give unreliable results. NIRS has greatly improved precision and reliability in the analysis of forages and is now routinely used for the analysis of silage and grain.

Danish pigmeat exports dropped over 12 percent in January and February. Exports to other European Union countries were particularly badly hit, with the biggest falls being to the United Kingdom, and Italy.

Total meat exports were up 38.3% in 2008, driven primarily by a 43.9% increase in exports of lamb to £263.0m and a 69.3% rise in exports of beef to £212.7m. British pork also enjoyed a resurgence in 2008, with exports climbing by 52.6% to a value of £134.6m. Key to this growth was a jump of 52.6% in pork exports to Germany, which is now the UK’s number one market, worth £48.8m. Sausage exports also continued to grow, up 19.5% to £13.8m.

While USDA officials travel around the countryside to conduct listening sessions related to its National Animal Identification System, the funding portion of that program is hitting a snag. The House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Thursday, voted to eliminate in the fiscal 2010 agriculture funding bill money for NAIS.

The European Commission has published a decision to grant England, Scotland and Wales a derogation from the Nitrates Directive, allowing the application of up to 250kg nitrogen per hectare per year from livestock manure in grassland farms.

America’s meat and poultry industry, comprised of packers and processors, wholesalers and retailers, directly and indirectly contributes $832.4 billion dollars annually to the U.S. economy, roughly 5.8 percent of total GDP, according to a new Economic Impact Study unveiled today by AMI.

All illegal pig farms in Sabah must register and apply for licences before July 1, this year. Issuing the warning, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Yahya Hussin said an order requiring them to apply for the licence was issued when the Control of Livestock Activities (Pig) Rules 2008, was gazetted on Feb. 12 this year.

The Provincial Veterinary (PVET) Office has intensified monitoring and control of the spread of swine disease incidence in the province similar to PRRS.

Ukrainian analysts reported that during the first four months of 2009 Ukraine more than doubled its meat imports compared to the same period in 2008 showing 104,000t vs. 48,000 t.

USDA has dropped its total U.S. meat production projections for 2009 and 2010. In its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, USDA estimated pork production for this year to be 22.75 billion pounds. While market hog numbers are down a bit from last year's record-setting pace, heavier carcass weights have pushed overall pounds of pork above 2008's second-quarter levels. USDA reduced next year's pork production to 22.35 billion pounds.

Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the former Soviet Union's largest grain producers, will establish a grain pool to be more competitive on the world market, the countries' agriculture ministers said Sunday at the World Grain Forum.