• Older Belgian farmers consider stopping due to group housing

    Older-age pig farmers in Belgium would prefer to stop rather than comply with the new EU rules enforcing the ban on sow gestation crates, the Belgian daily newspaper De Standaard reports. The newspap...
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  • Older Belgian farmers consider stopping due to group housing

    Older-age pig farmers in Belgium would prefer to stop rather than comply with the new EU rules enforcing the ban on sow gestation crates, the Belgian daily newspaper De Standaard reports. The newspap...
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  • US drought reduces DDGS in swine diets

    The US drought-induced price increase of corn is closing US ethanol plants. The plants produce distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), as a co-product with e...
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  • US drought reduces DDGS in swine diets

    The US drought-induced price increase of corn is closing US ethanol plants. The plants produce distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), as a co-product with e...
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  • Pig slaughter down by 0.8%, first dip in seven years

    The EU’s largest pork consumer, Germany, has reported a decline in pig butchering: 0.8 % in the first six months through June. The decline is the German industry’s first in seven years, Bl...
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  • NPPC Thanks Government for Pork Purchase

    US — The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) President R.C. Hunt has stated how grateful the NPPC is for the government’s pork purchase to help farmers affected by t...
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  • Pig slaughter down by 0.8%, first dip in seven years

    The EU’s largest pork consumer, Germany, has reported a decline in pig butchering: 0.8 % in the first six months through June. The decline is the German industry’s first in seven years, Bl...
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  • NPPC Thanks Government for Pork Purchase

    US — The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) President R.C. Hunt has stated how grateful the NPPC is for the government’s pork purchase to help farmers affected by t...
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  • New drought assistance available to livestock producers

    As part of continuing steps by the Obama Administration to assist livestock producers in response to the historic drought, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted t...
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  • Brazil pork producers want Bolivian soy

    Persistent drought has shrunken Brazil’s domestic supplies of soy, and now producers are lobbying the government to approve soy imports from neighbouring Bolivia, Reuters reports. Bra...
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  • New drought assistance available to livestock producers

    As part of continuing steps by the Obama Administration to assist livestock producers in response to the historic drought, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted t...
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  • Brazil pork producers want Bolivian soy

    Persistent drought has shrunken Brazil’s domestic supplies of soy, and now producers are lobbying the government to approve soy imports from neighbouring Bolivia, Reuters reports. Bra...
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  • China buys frozen pork to stabilise prices

    China’s government will again purchase frozen pork to stabilise the market, as increases in hog production have prompted a fall in prices, Xinhua reports. Due to a...
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  • China buys frozen pork to stabilise prices

    China’s government will again purchase frozen pork to stabilise the market, as increases in hog production have prompted a fall in prices, Xinhua reports. Due to a...
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  • Sweden plans ban of castrating piglets without anaesthesia

    Sweden may ban the surgical castration of piglets without anesthesia as from 2016. The Swedish government is planning to intensify animal welfare by banning piglet castration without the use of anaes...
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  • Strong Forecast for Brazil Maize, US Drought Raises Feed Costs

    BRAZIL — Maize farmers are having one of their best moments this year. Brazil’s crop should reach a record 69.4 million tonnes, according to forecasts by the Natio...
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  • British bacon may disappear from the menu

    The National Pig Association has released a survey that concludes that the climate’s influence on pig feed prices is forcing British producers to quit bacon. The NPA estimate some 10% of the fa...
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  • Strong Forecast for Brazil Maize, US Drought Raises Feed Costs

    BRAZIL — Maize farmers are having one of their best moments this year. Brazil’s crop should reach a record 69.4 million tonnes, according to forecasts by the Natio...
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  • British bacon may disappear from the menu

    The National Pig Association has released a survey that concludes that the climate’s influence on pig feed prices is forcing British producers to quit bacon. The NPA estimate some 10% of the fa...
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  • Sweden plans ban of castrating piglets without anaesthesia

    Sweden may ban the surgical castration of piglets without anesthesia as from 2016. The Swedish government is planning to intensify animal welfare by banning piglet castration without the use of anaes...
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