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The Philippine government indicated this week that it will maintain current rules for the administration of its tariff rate quota (TRQ) for pork, preserving U.S. access to a fast-growing market for U.S. pork exports.

Saskatchewan's agriculture minister has announced a 71 million dollar program to assist the province's cattle and hog producers and called on the federal government to provide additional support.

The number of piglets shrunk from 1.9 million to 1.7 million – a 12.9% drop. The number of younger pigs (-50 kg) decreases as well, by 2.7% to approximately 4.9 million. (Original in Dutch. Read Google translation here).

Foot-and-mouth disease hit another Mekong Delta Can Tho province of Vietnam, raising the number of infected provinces to ten, according to Department of Animal Health under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Wednesday.

A government panel on food safety on Tuesday approved a draft report that concluded meat from cloned cattle and pigs is as safe as that from animals born through conventional reproduction techniques.

In the late 1990s the Finnish Yorkshire pig population was threatened by a genetic defect which spread at an alarming rate and led to infertility. The defective KPL2 gene in porcine chromosome 16 caused pig spermatozoa to be short-tailed and immotile. The recessive genetic defect did not cause any other symptoms in the pigs. Research Scientist Anu Sironen of MTT Agrifood Research Finland mapped the defective gene in her doctoral research. Sequence analysis of the candidate gene KPL2 revealed the presence of an inserted retrotransposon, a DNA sequence which moves around independently in the host genome.

There is no salmonella outbreak in Region 8, announced Dr. Archie Lluz who is Chief of Regional Animal Disease and Diagnostic Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in the region. The results were identified as "Pasteurella hemolytica" a type of bacterial infection that reportedly causes deaths of swine and is due to bad sanitation and changes in weather conditions.

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 152/2009 of 27 January 2009 laying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feed.

A federal appeals court yesterday denied an industry request to order U.S. EPA to reconsider its decision to regulate dust in rural areas, a move that agricultural groups say could stifle farmers unnecessarily.

The decision was written in a draft law on food safety, which was tabled to the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China's top legislature, on Wednesday for a fourth reading.

From March 3 2009, the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM) will extend the use of the telematic system for the application for health certificates for the exportation of genetic material (semen, ovules and embryos) and live equine and porcine animals. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).

Kathleen Merrigan has been nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama to be deputy secretary of Agriculture, officials said Tuesday.

Agricultural product volume increased by 2.6% to 71.4 billion rubles in Russia in January 2009, to compare with the corresponding period in 2007, Federal State Statistics Service of Russia (Rosstat) reports.

After the detection of cases of CSF in wild boar in neighbouring states, the government of Hessen has launched an information campaign with the aim of preventing and protecting against the disease. (Original in German. Read Google translation here).

Danish Crown decided to lower the interest rate on contracts to finance purchase of piglets.