Asia PacificBroken Bans China lifts its ban on Canadian poultry products and ...

Asia Pacific

Broken Bans
China lifts its ban on Canadian poultry products and approves export facilities for key cattle and pig products.

Europe

EFTA negotiates trade deals with South Korea, Tunisia
The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) is negotiating a free trade deal involving food products with South Korea, having recently struck such an agreement with Tunisia.

How large herds achieve high levels of performance
Proving that it is possible to achieve high levels of performance with large herds, seven JSR Farms' breeding units, totalling 4,750 sows, are averaging 26.l piglets born alive and 23.02 weaned per sow a year.

Americas

Canadian feed linked to Mad Cow
Canadian government investigators have tied cattle-feed containing ruminant remains to Canada's second homegrown case of mad-cow disease, and are focusing on feed in their investigation of the most-recent case of the disease formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE.

Pork producers urged to develop emergency plan to contain disease outbreak
Canada's pork producers are being urged to support a national plan that could see hog farms locked down within hours of a contagious animal disease being detected.

USA

Beef trade with Japan is 'priority one,' Johanns says
Though he couldn't say when Japan would resume buying U.S. beef, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns vowed to make the issue "priority one" during his first news conference Monday.

EPA offers amnesty on livestock emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a landmark air quality compliance agreement they say aims to address emissions from certain animal feeding operations.

Cash Hogs: Not much change seen in prices
The supply of slaughter-ready hogs and packer demand appear to be fairly well in balance, according to market sources, which led to mostly steady calls for cash hog prices Tuesday.

Asia Pacific

Broken Bans
China lifts its ban on Canadian poultry products and approves export facilities for key cattle and pig products.

Europe

EFTA negotiates trade deals with South Korea, Tunisia
The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) is negotiating a free trade deal involving food products with South Korea, having recently struck such an agreement with Tunisia.

How large herds achieve high levels of performance
Proving that it is possible to achieve high levels of performance with large herds, seven JSR Farms' breeding units, totalling 4,750 sows, are averaging 26.l piglets born alive and 23.02 weaned per sow a year.

Americas

Canadian feed linked to Mad Cow
Canadian government investigators have tied cattle-feed containing ruminant remains to Canada's second homegrown case of mad-cow disease, and are focusing on feed in their investigation of the most-recent case of the disease formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE.

Pork producers urged to develop emergency plan to contain disease outbreak
Canada's pork producers are being urged to support a national plan that could see hog farms locked down within hours of a contagious animal disease being detected.

USA

Beef trade with Japan is 'priority one,' Johanns says
Though he couldn't say when Japan would resume buying U.S. beef, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns vowed to make the issue "priority one" during his first news conference Monday.

EPA offers amnesty on livestock emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a landmark air quality compliance agreement they say aims to address emissions from certain animal feeding operations.

Cash Hogs: Not much change seen in prices
The supply of slaughter-ready hogs and packer demand appear to be fairly well in balance, according to market sources, which led to mostly steady calls for cash hog prices Tuesday.