A formal application has now been submitted to the European Commission so that Sweden can be officially declared free of the disease at the end of September.

Within the framework of the project “Keeping Animals Healthy in Ukraine”, the Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders, with the support of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), has successfully completed 18 out of 20 planned biosafety audits at Ukrainian pig farms.

Imports of pork remain at a record low, while exports in January-August already exceed last year's achievements. Details of the dynamics of foreign trade in pork are reported by analysts of the Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders with reference to preliminary data from customs statistics of the State Customs Service.

This week contained a next chapter in the ongoing saga related to nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands, which could potentially have consequences for its swine industry. A few days ago, news trickled through that the new government is planning to scrap earlier policies aimed at protecting the Netherlands’ natural areas.

Autumn began with the beginning of a downward movement of prices in the slaughter pig market, according to the results of the weekly monitoring of purchase prices by the Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders.

South Korea on Saturday launched disinfection efforts after a reported outbreak of African swine fever at a pig farm in Gimpo, Gyeonggi province, according to local media.

Pig slaughter up by 2.4% compared to the second quarter of 2023.

Poland’s pig industry made it through a difficult summer. The profitability of many farms declined. There is no certainty that the rest of the year will be much better.

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.