Category Archives: Global news

Brazil’s meatpackers turn to wheat as a feed alternative as corn prices surge

Source: Megan Howell, 27 April 2021, The Pig Site, photo credit: Adobe Stock/Baking Business Reuters ...

Will China and Germany resume pork trade?

Source: Pig333.com, 21 April 2021, photo credit: CCM Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture Julia ...

New Zealand introduces climate change law for financial firms in world first

Source: Renju Jose, Reuters, 14 April 2021, photo credit: Time/Getty Images New Zealand has become ...

Germany will evaluate anti-tail docking policy

Source: Anne-Marie van der Linde, Pig Progress, 19 April 2021, photo credit: WATTAgNet Germany’s policy ...

Germany: More targeted monitoring to improve animal welfare

Source: Pig333.com, 23 March 2021: photo credit: Engage in Learning The German Federal Government has ...

Russia has become the world’s 5th largest pork producer

Source: Vladislav Vorotnikov, Pigs Progress, 3 April 2021, photo credit: Eurovision Song Contest According to ...

USAID and key agriculture partners launch consortium to combat the threat of infectious diseases

Source: Global Ag Media/The Pig Site 13 April 2021, photo credit: PEW A five-year animal ...

Taiwan tests hog herds after African swine fever pig washes ashore

Source:  Ben Blanchard, Reuters/Farm Journal’s Pork, 6 April 2021, photo credit: The Telegraph Taiwan has ...

US pork industry struggled but found its footing during Covid-19 crisis

By Karen McMahon April 1, 2021, Farm Journal’s Pork, photo credit: National Pork Board and ...

2020 a year of stability for EU agri-food trade

Source: Pig333.com, 6 April 2021, photo credit: Pixabay/Egypt Today Over the course of 2020, the ...

ASF ravages northern China’s pig herd

Source: The Pig Site, 7 April 2021, photo credit: Pan Cheng/People’s Daily Online Industry sources ...

Poland confirms ASF outbreak on large farm

Pig33.com, 23 March 2021, photo credit: Keesing On March 17, Polish veterinary authorities reported the ...