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The strategy includes plans to move away from farrowing crates and address welfare concerns around stunning pigs with carbon dioxide.

The European Commission's latest EU Agricultural Outlook report presents projections for the EU pig meat market until 2035.

The Commission's EU Agricultural Outlook report presents projections for EU cereals markets until 2035.

Value record for Mexico led strong September performance for U.S. pork.

The United States hog and pig inventory was up 1% from year-ago levels.

Senegal is boosting local animal feed production to cut imports, empower smallholder farmers, and grow agribusiness.

Study finds poor sanitation and pig management fuel Taenia solium spread in northern Uganda, posing ongoing public health risks without urgent control.

The final tariffs will apply to European pork export companies for the next five years.

Two new secondary outbreaks have been reported with a total of 10 positive wild boars located near the outbreaks reported previously.

A slight increase of 0.4% in compound feed production is expected in the EU in 2025, compared to 2024, despite economic and regulatory challenges.

Nigeria reaffirms commitment to evidence-based policies to modernise the livestock sector, boost economic growth, during Botswana envoy’s visit.

FG reaffirms partnership with the private sector to rehabilitate 38 legacy livestock facilities across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones.

These are two new secondary outbreaks involving a total of three animals, bringing the total number of positive animals since the outbreak began to 16, all of them within the high-risk zone.

The Ministry of Agriculture has updated restrictions on exports of Spanish pork products, including new developments for Japan and the US.

Global wheat, maize, barley, and sorghum prices rose.

The monthly decline continued to be driven by lower pig and poultry meat prices.

The latest ESUAvet report shows a 5% rise in antimicrobial sales for food-producing animals in 2024, signaling a potential shift in long-term declines.

The limit values ​​are now lowered by 20% for weaning pigs and slaughter pigs.

Update on the markets that have lifted some of their initial restrictions on Spanish pork due to the ASF outbreak.

The temporary ban affects live pigs, pork meat, pig skin, and other related products from Taiwan.

Nigeria commits to a supportive environment and stronger stakeholder collaboration to make animal feed a key driver of its livestock transformation agenda.

Nigeria’s livestock minister visited the FAO office in Abuja, reaffirming the government’s commitment to stronger collaboration on livestock development.

The discovery of a virus similar to the one detected in Georgia does not rule out that the ASF outbreak could have originated in a biocontainment facility.

Several countries, such as South Korea and Chile, have confirmed that they will accept regionalization.