African Swine Fever (ASF) continues to claim victims on pig farms in northern Italy. Only in the northern regions this year, so far 23 pig farms have been infected in 2024, leading to the culling of tens of thousands of pigs.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit China next month, his office said on Friday, with Beijing's anti-dumping probe into EU pork imports as a backdrop, Reuters reported. 

The Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders (AUPB), the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection and representatives of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) are working to improve the biosecurity system in pig production.

So far this year, total outbreaks in this population are significantly lower than at the same point in 2023, while cases in wild boar have passed 4,600.

Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork processor, on Tuesday announced the separation of its European operations as the Virginia-based firm plans to list in the United States, reported Reuters.

Frozen pork inventory in accredited cold storage facilities has fallen in 2024, according to a recent US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report.

At the end of the summer, quotations on the slaughter pig live market experienced a slight negative fluctuation, according to analysts of the Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders, based on the results of the weekly monitoring of purchase prices by the Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders.

US hog farmers faced devastating average losses of about $31 per head in 2023, according to a recent market report from Bernt Nelson at the American Farm Bureau Federation.

The European Commission has approved a Danish scheme to support higher animal welfare standards for pigs. The scheme is allowed under EU State aid rules and has a budget of approximately €20 million (DKK 151 million).

The Philippines is under global scrutiny as it proceeds with the controlled rollout of an unproven African swine fever (ASF) vaccine from Vietnam amid doubts from experts about its safety and efficacy.

When the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus hit Asia, the infections took the countries like a whirlwind. That it was impactful and chaotic that much was clear. A few years down the road, it is possible to reconstruct what happened, figure out patterns and learn from them. In 2 papers, researchers at the University of Minnesota in the US did so for the ASF spread in the Philippines.

Representatives of Canadian pork and meat organisations have expressed concerns about a national rail strike, involving 9,000 workers, which could impact the transport of feed and food.

For the first six months of 2024, export volumes were at their lowest level since 2015.

JBS and BRF recorded the best financial results in their histories in the second quarter of 2024. This was partly driven by their pork activities.

In the face of mounting difficulties in collecting payments for delivered goods, Russian exporters are reportedly considering switching to barter trade, even though this move may have several disadvantages.

Last week, the USBA reported on the progress of the Animal Health in Ukraine project, which is being implemented jointly with the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

A looming stoppage of freight railway operations across Canada would disrupt North America's agricultural supply chain, snarling shipments of everything from wheat to fertiliser and meat, reported Reuters. 

russian pork producers are aiming to capture 10% of China's pork import market in the coming years from a standing start, seeking to take advantage of trade tensions between the European Union and China, the world's biggest pork consumer, Reuters reported. 

For the first time in 8 years, there has been a slight increase in the number of pigs slaughtered in Germany. In the first 6 months of 2024, 21.9 million pigs were slaughtered in the number #2 pig country in the European Union. That was 0.4% or 78,100 animals more than in the same period last year, the federal statistics office Destatis reported. The increase follows a decrease by 6.9% of the number of slaughtered pigs in 2023.