Less Red Tape To Aid Agricultural Exports
AUSTRALIA - The Australian Government is boosting regional economies through $30 million in support and a further A$30 million per annum in reduced red tape for agricultural export industries.

Pig Levy Increase Proposal Submitted to Govt
AUSTRALIA - Australian pork producers are one step closer in their quest to obtain an increase in the pig slaughter levy. Late last year pork producers voted to endorse the proposal to increase the pig...

2012 - Australian Year of the Farmer
AUSTRALIA - Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, and Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Sid Sidebottom, have welcomed 2012 - the Australian...

Farm Export Earnings Set to Rise
AUSTRALIA - Australia’s agricultural export earnings are forecast to rise in 2011–12.

New Pork CRC Launched with High Integrity
AUSTRALIA - Officially launching the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork, Chairman of the CRC Committee, Neville Stevens, AO, said it had the potential to build quality jobs and products for Austra...

Pig Farmers Endorse Increase in Slaughter Levy
AUSTRALIA - Yesterday, at the industry Annual General Meeting in Canberra, Australian pig farmers endorsed the proposal to increase the pig slaughter levy by 90 cents.

Positive Outlook for Aussie Grains Industry
AUSTRALIA - Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, has welcomed the release of the Australian Grains 11.2: Grains outlook 2011–12 and industry productivity report, where...

Carbon Initiative to Boost Pig Farmers’ Income
AUSTRALIA - The Australian Government today launched the first methodology to be approved under the Carbon Farming Initiative, which will provide pig farmers with the opportunity to earn carbon credits...

Pork CRC Delivers in a Competitive World
AUSTRALIA - Delivering the 2010/2011 and final annual report of the CRC for an Internationally Competitive Pork Industry, Chairman, Dr John Keniry, said its three research programmes had delivered exceptional...

Pork Levy Increase Expected to Be Approved
AUSTRALIA - The former president of Queensland Pork Producers says it's inevitable the levy will rise for that industry.

APL Roadshow Sells the Pork Levy
AUSTRALIA - Australian Pork Limited (APL) says it's done all it can to convince its producers a levy increase is in their best interests.

Mixed Reaction to Higher Pig Levy
SOUTH AUSTRALIA - Mixed reactions are being received to the news of a proposed increase in pig levy.

APL Discusses Proposed Increase in Pork Levy
AUSTRALIA - Australian Pork Limited (APL) is holding producer meetings in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania to discuss the proposal for an increase to the Pig Industry Slaughter Levy.

Increase in Pork Levy Up for Discussion
AUSTRALIA - The peak industry body for Australia’s pork producers, Australian Pork Limited (APL), is embarking on a series of national producer meetings to discuss the proposal for an overall 90 cent...

No Growth Promoters in Aussie Pork, Says Coles
AUSTRALIA - Coles supermarket has ordered its fresh pork suppliers to not use a chemical in pig feed called Paylean.

New Board for New Pork CRC
AUSTRALIA - Ensuring Australian pork is a high integrity meat that is welfare optimal, environmentally responsible, safe and nutritious is the focus of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork.

Australian Pork Favoured in Singapore
AUSTRALIA - Pork from Australia is the top choice in Singapore.

No Raw Meat to Enter Australia Without Quarantine
AUSTRALIA - The Australian pork industry believes it's the real target of an international push to export raw pig meat to New Zealand.

Benchmark When Only the Best Will Do
AUSTRALIA - Experienced pig nutritionist Geoff Handley of Highspec Rural Services credits the recent push by Australia's Pork Cooperative Research Centre (Pork CRC) to implement a national performance...

Australian Pig Annual 2009-2010 Now Available
AUSTRALIA - The Australian Pig Annual (APA) 2009-2010 has now been completed and is available electronically on the Australian Pork Limited (APL) website.

Sydney Show Suggests Pig Industry is Rebuilding
AUSTRALIA - Pig numbers at the Sydney Royal Easter Show have increased this year, suggesting the worst is over for pig producers. Up to 50 per cent of producers left the industry because of the introduction...

ABARE Outlook: Higher Pig Meat Imports, Exports
AUSTRALIA - According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), in it's Australian Commodities report for the first quarter of 2011, pig meat imports...

ABARE Outlook: Ag Exports to Rise
AUSTRALIA - The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) has released its latest commodity forecasts, which predict commodity exports to exceed $250 billion in 20...

Nutrition Research to Pay Producer Dividends
AUSTRALIA - Paying closer attention to nutrition in their pre- and post- weaning pigs promises to pay dividends for pork producers thanks to enhanced intestinal and immune development, survivability and...

Danish Bacon Imports Overwhelm Local Pig Farmers
AUSTRALIA - The high Australian dollar has helped boost bacon imports from the European Union.

Penn Pushing Pork as Christmas Draws Near
AUSTRALIA - Western Australian shoppers can expect to pay more for their pork as Christmas approaches.

Pork CRC Looks Ahead
AUSTRALIA - Pork CRC has received the good news that its application for a further eight years of funding for the Pork CRC has been invited by the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Committee...

A First for Australia's Pork Industry
AUSTRALIA - Pork producers from all over Australia took the opportunity to participate in a Town Hall Teleforum to discuss the industry’s use of gestation stalls as part of the Shaping our Future...

Pork Farmers Hit Out at Coles Sow Stall Ban
AUSTRALIA - The New South Wales Farmers Association is concerned Australian pork suppliers will go out of business if major supermarkets ban pork from pigs raised in sow stalls.

Aussie Pork Industry Battles Cheap Imports
AUSTRALIA - Every good ham knows imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But, for the pork industry, the difficulties consumers face in divining the real thing from the cheaper, imported knock-off...