• United States: Wisconsin to require PRRS certificate

    Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection announced that effective March 1, swine entering Wisconsin must be accompanied by an import permit. To successfully acquire this perm...
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  • German Pig farmers Ignore EU Animal Protection Laws

    GERMANY — Der Spiegel magazine recently met a group of activists secretly breaking into Germany’s pig farms in the dead of night to document wide-spread flout...
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  • German Pig farmers Ignore EU Animal Protection Laws

    GERMANY — Der Spiegel magazine recently met a group of activists secretly breaking into Germany’s pig farms in the dead of night to document wide-spread flout...
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  • United States: Wisconsin to require PRRS certificate

    Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection announced that effective March 1, swine entering Wisconsin must be accompanied by an import permit. To successfully acquire this perm...
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  • EU Pig Prices: Has the Penny Dropped?

    EU — Increasing prices are dominating the European slaughter pig market this week. It appears that the penny has dropped; with the quantities of live animals being scarcer, the p...
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  • Beef, Pork Exports Set New Records in 2012

    US — US beef and pork exports set new value records in 2012, topping highs set in 2011, according to end-of-year statistics released by USDA and compiled by th...
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  • EU Pig Prices: Has the Penny Dropped?

    EU — Increasing prices are dominating the European slaughter pig market this week. It appears that the penny has dropped; with the quantities of live animals being scarcer, the p...
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  • Beef, Pork Exports Set New Records in 2012

    US — US beef and pork exports set new value records in 2012, topping highs set in 2011, according to end-of-year statistics released by USDA and compiled by th...
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  • Ireland: Sow housing deadline postponed

    Some pig farmers are having trouble with getting planning permission for new sow housing, this has led to the application deadline for funding under the Sow Welfare Scheme to be postponed. Simon Cove...
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  • Ireland: Sow housing deadline postponed

    Some pig farmers are having trouble with getting planning permission for new sow housing, this has led to the application deadline for funding under the Sow Welfare Scheme to be postponed. Simon Cove...
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  • World Pork Expo Celebrates 25th Anniversary

    US — The world’s largest pork-specific trade show... a wide range of educational seminars... breeding-stock shows and sales... succulent pork products ... fun and fellowship...
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  • World Pork Expo Celebrates 25th Anniversary

    US — The world’s largest pork-specific trade show... a wide range of educational seminars... breeding-stock shows and sales... succulent pork products ... fun and fellowship...
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  • EU Pig Prices: Is the Trend Being Reversed?

    EU - There is only little movement on the EU slaughter pig market this week. In the northern EU member countries, the quantities on offer are in demand and are quickly sold. Until now, weakening meat...
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  • Brazil: Ractopamine - safe for use in pork

    Animal scientists in Brazil have found that a small dose of the feed additive ractopamine can boost pork production without changing how pork looks or tastes. In the latest issue of the Journal of An...
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  • EU Pig Prices: Is the Trend Being Reversed?

    EU - There is only little movement on the EU slaughter pig market this week. In the northern EU member countries, the quantities on offer are in demand and are quickly sold. Until now, weakening meat...
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  • Brazil: Ractopamine - safe for use in pork

    Animal scientists in Brazil have found that a small dose of the feed additive ractopamine can boost pork production without changing how pork looks or tastes. In the latest issue of the Journal of An...
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  • China: Eight detained in illegal bacon case

    Police in Chongqing have detained eight people for allegedly processsing bacon illegally to sell, according to the Xinhua news agency. The police raided four sites hidden in a market in the municipal...
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  • China: Eight detained in illegal bacon case

    Police in Chongqing have detained eight people for allegedly processsing bacon illegally to sell, according to the Xinhua news agency. The police raided four sites hidden in a market in the municipal...
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    • Biochem

    Biochem invites everybody to visit Agro Animal Show 2013

    DEAR CLIENTS, FRIENDS AND PARTNERS! We invite everybody to visit the boost of BIOCHEM company during the 3d International exhibition of the effective animal husbandry an...
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  • EU Pig Prices: Optimism Prevails in the South

    EU - The slaughter pig market is increasingly stabilising in Central and South Europe this week. The quotations in Spain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria remain unchanged. The correcte...
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