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A study from Wageningen Livestock Research and Utrecht University concludes it is too early to stop tail docking entirely in The Netherlands.

The significant fall in antibiotic use in food-producing animals suggests that the measures taken at country level to reduce use are proving to be effective.

A total of 278 pig farmers will receive funding through the Subsidy Scheme for the Remediation of Pig Farms to close and demolish their pig farms.

The proposal will come as part of the ongoing revision of the animal welfare legislation under the Farm to Fork Strategy.

The number of hogs and pigs on U.S. farms was down 2% from June 2020.

The presidency concluded by emphasising the global aspect of the threat and the need to take action at international level.

Pig slaughter in Germany was down 4.2% in the first quarter of 2021.

The provisional political agreement reached by the European Parliament and Council on the new Common Agricultural Policy introduces a fairer, greener, more animal friendly and flexible CAP.

The proposal will allow the use of insect proteins and non-ruminant proteins (collagen and gelatin) in poultry and swine feed.

The Portal brings together information from more than 200 databases on crops, climate, and rural credit, as well as information on the fisheries industry and geo-referenced images of rural Brazil.

The volume of pork on the Chinese market has continued to increase recently. In May, the slaughter volume increased 44% year-on-year.

This arrangement would serve to minimize trade impacts to the Canadian swine sector while protecting the swine populations in both countries.

OIE and ASEAN will further expand regional animal disease control programmes to include African swine fever and classical swine fever.

The Commission’s Animal Welfare Platform recommends the establishment of a voluntary labelling scheme at EU-level.

The pork trade balance was again positive in 2020, both in volume and value. The trade surplus was US$ 4.03 million, while in 2019 there was a trade deficit of US$ 47.3 million.

A review of the effectiveness of sampling procedures, monitoring period, and minimum radius of the protection and surveillance zones for FMD.