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Although a stronger valued U.S. dollar is expected to constrain growth in U.S. agricultural exports somewhat, the United States remains competitive in global agricultural markets and export values grow over the next 10 years.

The Internet of Food & Farm 2020 (IoF2020) project accelerates the uptake of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the European farming and food chains in view of strengthening their competitiveness and sustainability.

With a surplus of €18.8 billion the agri-food sector is also a major contributor to the overall surplus of the European Union in merchandise trade, which stood at €39.3 billion in 2016.

The ruling concerns a ban imposed by Russia in January 2014 because of the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in areas in the EU close to the border with Belarus.

The increase in the average carcass weight made pork production rise by 1,000 tonnes with respect to 2015.  

Ceta passed a crucial hurdle on 15 February when MEPs voted to back the landmark EU-Canada trade deal.

UK pigmeat exports hit a 17-year high in 2016, totalling almost 206,000 tonnes, according to AHDB Pork.

According to Ukrinform, in 2017, Ukraine's meat imports are expected to increase by 20%, or 30,000 tonnes.

From 2005 to 2015 the exports of agrifood products to Japan grew by 68.3%.

According to AHDB Pork, Chinese pork imports more than doubled on the year during 2016, reaching a substantial 1.6 million tonnes shipped weight and establishing the nation as the dominant global pork importer.

Negotiated for nearly five years and four months, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada is now ready for the final vote by the European Parliament.

Pork belly inventories were at 17.8 million pounds, down 67 percent from last year, according to USDA.

Exports accounted for 25.8 percent of total 2016 pork production.

In a joint letter transmitted to the White House, NCBA and NPPC asked the president “to initiate free trade agreement negotiations with nations in the Asia-Pacific region beginning with Japan..."

One of the key elements to these results lies, in the words of Vice president of the Grupo Empresarial Ganadero Carlos Vladimir Ortiz Mursulí, in the "empowerment of genetics".

In 2016, pig production increased by 9.4%.