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The latest livestock survey in Brittany, the region where the main part of French porcine is produced (56% of the total), showed a decrease of 1% in the swine population compared with 2001. There was also a decrease of 17% in swine herds, dropping from 7,700 in 2001 to 6,400 in 2008. (Original in French. Read Google translation here).

For 2009 and 2010, U.S. feed grain production is forecast at 344.8 million metric tons, up 5.2 million from a month ago and up 18.9 million from 2008-09, according to the Feed Outlook, a report from the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The Czech Republic's self-sufficiency in pork decreased by over 20 percentage points to less than 75 percent between 2004 and 2008 and will probably keep falling.

Pig stocks were recorded by means of sampling at around 4 000 holdings – for the first time directly, so without assistance of towns and municipalities (as the survey bodies) – on the reference date of 1 June 2009 and yielded a total figure of 3 151 000 animals. This corresponds to a 2.9% rise in stocks compared to the date of the last census in December 2008.

China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corp (COFCO) is set to invest CNY 4 billion (USD 588 million) in Tianjin for a complex combining pig farms with a processing plant.

The Spain Agribusiness Report Q309 looks at the domestic farming industry during a global recession.

Figures for May 2009 indicate a 2.1% decrease in French porcine livestock compared to the previous year, with a total of 14.3 million head, 313,000 fewer than the previous year.

As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), some 26.9 million pigs were kept in about 67,600 holdings in Germany in May 2009.