The proposal is one of the measures to tackle the serious crisis caused by overproduction and the global and national economic situation.

A good sign last Friday was that valuable portions of U.S. pork carcasses closed at $1.10. After several weeks near the $1.00 mark, it needs to increase along with the price of pork.

Denmark is to be the first country in the world to have a state-controlled climate label for foods.

Thermal drones, capture teams, and professional carcass search teams will be put in place in critical African swine fever control areas.

The country's live pig inventory rose 1.6 percent year on year to reach 422.53 million at the end of March, including 41.85 million breeding sows.

In Ukraine, the sowing campaign has begun in all regions of the country, including Luhansk and Donetsk.

Yes, we have reserves of basic products for several years, in particular oil — for many years. This was stressed by the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky in an interview to «Economic Pravda».

The USDA has lowered its forecast for U.S. pork production as lower hog inventories and farrowing intentions lead to tighter pig supplies.

According to Rabobank's Global Pork Quarterly report, producers’ returns will be challenged by rising costs, and production growth is expected to slow, as is global trade.

As China imports less pork this year, where will the EU, US, Canada, and Brazil export their product?

Processors who buy pigs are losing money. This moderates their desire to continue their aggression on slaughter numbers. We understand that demand for pork before Easter is historically low.

The Ministers of Agriculture have agreed that the federal states not affected by African swine fever should share the costs of measures to combat it with the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Saxony.

The final results of the swine census published by Destatis as of November 3, 2021 show that the drop in pig inventory is somewhat less than expected based on the preliminary results reported in December.

Compared to last week, the EU's main pork producing markets revealed a balanced outlook.

Pork exports trended lower year-over-year in February, as larger shipments to Mexico and Japan did not offset the continued decline in demand from China/Hong Kong.

In March, pig meat prices registered the steepest monthly increase on record since 1995.

The Canadian swine sector will see slaughter levels recover somewhat in 2022 however disease impacts will see a slightly smaller pig crop in 2022 amidst higher losses.

Europe has over 10 million sows, Germany is the second-largest hog producer. Germany is going to pull hog prices higher in all of Europe.

European farmers are set to buy more genetically modified animal feed from the U.S. and South America after Russia’s invasion cut off corn shipments from Ukraine. 

A comprehensive set of measures are now being implemented to ease the impact of the current Russia-Ukraine crisis on the Philippine economy.