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According to data from the Statistics Office of North Rhine – Westphalia, approximately 700 piglet producing herds disappeared during the last year. A census in November last year showed a total of 4225 herds, which is equivalent to 14.3% fewer than the year before. (Original in German. Read Google translation here).

Cattle and hog producers facing hard financial times now have until September 30, 2010, to repay cash advances under the Advance Payment Program (APP). The extension of the repayment deadline for livestock advances was announced today by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. In addition, the first $100,000 of each producer’s advance will continue to be interest-free.

The Department of Health confirmed that one farm worker in the Philippines has been infected with Ebola-Reston antibodies, officials announced Friday. The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) said this is likely an old infection contracted more than six months ago. The person is healthy and has had no serious illness in the past 12 months, said Dr. Enrique Tayag, director of the Department of Health's National Epidemiology Center.

The first study documenting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in swine and swine workers in the United States has been published by University of Iowa researchers. For the study, investigators analyzed nasal swabs of 299 swine and 20 swine workers from two different production systems in Iowa and Illinois. At Production System A, the overall prevalence of MRSA was 70 percent in swine and 64 percent in workers. At Production System B, all swine and human samples were negative for MRSA.

The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), the Livestock Development Council, and the NMIS — all attached agencies of the Agriculture department — have put on hold plans to apply for pork export accreditation from South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, NMIS Executive Director Jane C. Bacayo said.

While Chile’s chicken exports increased by 61.5% compared with the previous year, pig meat exports decreased by 9% mainly due to the temporary closure of the Japanese and South Korean markets after the detection of dioxins above the permitted levels in several cargoes. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

The OIE has informed about de reoccurrence of foot and mout disease (serotype Asia 1) and a new strain of the disease (serotype A) in China.

The U.S. government's final rule on mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) for meat and other foods will go back to U.S. President Barack Obama's new agriculture secretary for review. Obama has directed U.S. federal officials to delay for 60 days the effective date of regulations passed in the Bush administration's final days that haven't yet taken effect, the Reuters news service reported Wednesday.

Chief of the veterinary department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry Vitalie Caraus told Infotag that in order to prevent the dissemination of this virus meat imports from Russia and other neighboring countries was prohibited for a certain period.

The standard states that the livestock used in naturally raised meat products: • Have been raised entirely without growth promotants and without antibiotics (except for ionophores used as coccidiostats for parasite control). • Have never been fed animal byproducts.

The objective of the Work Group is to promote policies aimed at allowing operators, agriculturists and breeders to receive the sufficient compensation corresponding to their activity.

Beef production grew by 2.7% up to 163.781 thousand tons, pork production was up 3% to 151.732 thousand tons, and poultry production increased by 16.8% to 128.927 thousand tons.

Protecting our Water, Soil and Air: A Code of Good Agricultural Practice for farmers, growers and land managers (the ‘CoGAP’) offers best practice advice for farmers to protect and enhance water, soil, and air quality in agricultural environments.

Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack has been confirmed as U.S. Agriculture Secretary.

Emission of nitrogen form agriculture has been reduced markedly since 1985.

Over the last few months there is evidence the disease, which has been relatively quiet for some time, has started to increase, with pockets of disease expanding particularly in the pig dense area of East Anglia, and north-east England.