Category Archives: Global news

France: Farms required to designate an animal welfare reference person

Source: Pig333.com, 17 January 2022, photo credit: World Animal Protection As of January 1, 2022, ...

US grocery shortages intensify as supplies wane

Source: The Pig Site, 16 January 2022, photo credit: WalesOnline High demand for groceries combined ...

ASF Thailand: First case reported in slaughterhouse

Source: Vincent Ter Beek, Pig Progress, 11 January 2022, photo credit: Get your Guide Thai ...

Australia funds neighbouring countries in battle against ASF

Source: Global Ag Media, The Pig Site, 5 January 2022, photo credit: Britannica The Australian ...

What questions do US pig farmers need to ask themselves now?

Source: Jennifer Shike, Farm Journal’s Pork, 29 December 2021, photo credit: CallcentreHelper A new year ...

ASF Italy: First case detected in Piedmont region

Source: Vincent ter Beek, Pig Progress, 7 January 2022, photo credit: Matador Network The first ...

US pork producers lobby lawmakers on foreign animal disease, worker shortage

Source: Jennifer Shike, Farm Journal’s Pork, 1 December 2021, photo credit: Oregon Live Preventing foreign ...

Denmark collaborates with Colombia to improve the swine industry

Source: Pig333.com, 9 December 2021, photo credit: The Pig Site The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), ...

Eurasian Union opens new quotas for meat imports at zero tariff

Source: Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply/The Pig Site, 9 December 2021, photo credit: ...

France to ban piglet castration without anesthesia and analgesia

Source: Pig333.com, 23 November 2021, photo credit: MedicineNet As of January 1, 2022, castration of ...

New ASF variants spreading in China

Source and photograph: Melanie Epp The Pig Site, 16 November 2021 Published in Emerging Microbes ...

US animal health companies target ways to lower antimicrobial resistance

Source: Jennifer Shike, Farm Journal’s Pork, 18 November 2021, photo credit: University of Plymouth Antimicrobial ...