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The growing production of pigmeat combined with falling exports could lead to lower prices. This is just one of the findings of the latest short term outlook report from the European Commission's agriculture and rural development department.

Post projects Japan’s total hog slaughter in 2017 to sustain at nearly the same level as the previous year at around 16.37 million head.

Tierwohl Initiative is an initiative that implies farms, abattoirs and supermarkets, and whose aim is to offer a better end product quality through the improvement of the animals’ welfare.

PJSC Cherkizovo Group, the largest vertically integrated meat and feed producer in Russia, announces that it has come first in the 2016 Agroinvestors ranking of Russia’s top meat producers.

In the first semester of 2017, pig production fell by 4.7% with respect to the same period in 2016.

Hog producers reported 14.1 million hogs, up 2.1% from July 1, 2016, marking the fifth consecutive year-over-year increase.

Pork production totaled 2.05 billion pounds, up 2 percent from the previous year.

It is the lowest pig census since November 2010.

Despite the important growth of the national production, the pork exports in the first semester of 2017 have risen 79,4% versus the same period in 2016.

The OECD, together with the FAO, have just published their Agricultura outlook report 2017-2026. According to the report, in the period encompassed by the Outlooks, it is expected that the growth of the demand suffers a considerable deceleration.

According to DG Agriculture "Short-term outlook for EU agricultural markets in 2017 and 2018" the negative trend is expected to continue at a more moderate level throughout 2017.

Together with Spain, France also increased significantly, displacing Poland to the fourth place.

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on June 1, 2017 was 71.7 million head. This was up 3 percent from June 1, 2016, and up 1 percent from March 1, 2017.

The best result during the first three months of a year has been recorded since the slaughterings survey was started.

This investment is due to the public and private interaction and to the exchange held by the company with the Ministry of Agro Industry of Argentina.

During the first three months of the year there was an increase of 2.8%, both in the number of pigs slaughtered and in the number of tonnes of pork produced.