Upturn in Demand Starts to Filters Through
UK - Now that we have emerged bedraggled from the so called summer and the schools are back, the long-awaited upturn in demand is starting to filter through, although at this stage it is more of a trickle than a rush, says Peter Crichton in this week's...

Retroactive Extension of Federal Cull Breeding Program Urged
CANADA - The Canadian Pork Council (CPC) is calling on the federal government to expand the breeding swine cull program to include more slaughtered animals retroactively.

Weekly Review: Live Hog Prices Decline
US - Weekly review of the US hog industry, written by Glenn Grimes and Ron Plain.

The IGF2 Effect in Young Piglets
BELGIUM - Researchers of the Universities of Leuven and Gent in Belgium, showed that piglets that inherited the IGF2 mutation from the sire produce more IGF2 in muscles.

Cull Breeding Swine Program Feed Changes Applauded
CANADA - Canadian pork producers are applauding changes to the Federal Cull Breeding Swine Program that will allow participants to recover more of their feed costs, writes Bruce Cochrane.

Triumph Foods Planning on Expansion
US - Officials of Triumph Foods say that pork export sales have been successful and as a result of this, the company is able to come up with expansion plans.

Market Preview: Rewriting Hog Price History
US - Weekly US Market Preview provided by Steve R. Meyer, Ph.D., Paragon Economics, Inc.

Scottish Red Meat Nation's Favourite
SCOTLAND - Highland Hunk Glen is visiting Dundee today (Friday) to launch a campaign highlighting Scotch Beef as one of Scotland’s best loved foods.

Record High Pork and Beef Exports
US - While pork and beef cutout prices have fallen back from peak levels reached earlier this summer, both remain well above the price level of one year ago.

Recent Weeks Witness Pig Price Squeeze
The chart above tracks prices from an index of 100 in July last year. It shows how the pig price has been squeezed in recent weeks by retailers.

USDA Funds More Work on PRRS and Bird Flu
US - USDA has renewed funding for the coordinated agricultural projects focusing on porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) and on avian influenza (AI).

Cost of Pork Products Soaring
UK - Food prices have spiralled 8.3 per cent since January, with meat and fish rising by nearly a quarter and some products up by 50 percent.

Elanco's New Global HQ
US - Elanco has chosen a site at Greenfield, Indiana for its new global headquarters.

CME: Crop Conditions Critical for Financial Prospects
US - CME's Daily Livestock Report for 3^rd September 2008.

Use of Genetics to Boost Piglet Survival
EU - EU-funded researchers have improved the survival rates of newborn piglets in just one generation by applying simple selective breeding techniques. The scientists hope their findings will lead to a reduction in use of the farrowing crate, a metal...

EU Parliament Votes Against Animal Clones
EU - The European Parliament called for a ban in the EU on the cloning of animals for food supply. MEPs also urged an embargo on imports of cloned animals, their offspring and products derived from these sources.

WA Pork Producers Poised to Face Tough Times
AUSTRALIA - Vigorous debate, mainly centred on feeding for profit, highlighted a dynamic and productive series of meetings and forums held by WA Pork Producers’ Association (WAPPA) last Friday as part of its annual industry day, which encompasses an...

Monitoring Sow Prices
UK - Sow prices are almost double the level they were at this time last year because of an increased demand for manufacturing meat.

UFU: No Justification for Pig Price Cut
UK - Local pig producers have expressed their anger at a drop in farm gate pig prices imposed this week by local pig processing companies. Ulster Farmers’ Union Pork and Bacon Chairman Norman Robson said there was no justification for this weeks price...

Expansion of Cull Breeding Swine Program Urged
CANADA - The Canadian Pork Council is urging the federal government to expand the Cull Breeding Swine program to included more slaughtered animals retroactively, writes Bruce Cochrane.