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The Health Check will modernise, simplify and streamline the CAP and remove restrictions on farmers, thus helping them to respond better to signals from the market and to face new challenges.

The final CAFO (confined animal feeding operations) were published in the Federal Register on November 20, 2008 and will become effective on December 20, 2008.

To assure that consumers are eating safe meat the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) has started to inspect public markets, slaughterhouses and post-abbatoir operations with the assistance of law enforcement agencies.

Chilean pork exports are expected to fall by around 15% this year, following the closure of the South Korean market due to concerns over dioxin contamination.

FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf today appealed to world leaders to meet together next year to design a new agricultural order and find $30 billion a year to eradicate hunger from the Earth once and for all.

The positive opinion to the Rural Development programme of the Portuguese national rural network for the financial period 2007-2013 marks the end of the process of approving the 94 different regional and national rural development programmes that make up the EU rural development policy.

The Canadian Wheat Board reports, because of high levels of DON, visual inspection of winter wheat and spring wheat crops in fusarium affected areas of Manitoba is proving to be unreliable.

The exports for the 8 months totaled 50,000 tons, a drop of 54% on 2007.

Over the past several years corn plantings have increased at the expense of milo. As a result, many swine producers have been transitioning to corn-based diets.

Russia plans to cut 2009 import quotas on poultry by 300,000 tonnes and pork by 200,000 tonnes, the agriculture minister said on Monday.

The amount of the total antibiotics used for growth and efficiency in 2007 was estimated to be 13%, up from less than 5% the previous year.

The exercise will test authorities' preparedness to respond to a hypothetical outbreak of classical swine fever in the nation's estimated 25 million feral pigs.

Olexandr Turchynov has commissioned the Ministry of Communications and Transport of Ukraine, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, the State Committee of Veterinary Medicine and the State Customs Services to take immediate measures to prevent the disease to the territory of Ukraine

Australian pig producers are set to benefit from a new cereal grain due for release next year. The triticale was developed in conjunction with the Australian pig industry, specifically for monogastric animals.

The project, involving national mass vaccination of pigs, was looking at the value of vaccinating against PCV2 and the results are so important for the English pig industry, the preliminary findings are being announced immediately.

U.S. exports of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) are growing by leaps and bounds. Use by international livestock producers is increasing as the ethanol co-product proves a safe, nutritious and price-competitive ingredient.