Yurun Food, Chairman Seek $222 Million Selling Shares (Update1)
CHINA - China Yurun Food Group, the country's biggest hog processor, and its chairman are seeking as much as HK$1.73 billion ($222 million) selling shares, according to an e-mail to international institutions today.

Pig processor goes to market
CHINA - China Yurun Food Group (1068), one of the mainland's largest producers of chilled and frozen pork, and its chairman are seeking to take advantage of the market peak to raise up to HK$1.73 billion through share placements.

Seed and Nursery Co Expected to Benefit From the Recovery of China's Feed Industry
CHINA - Shandong Zhouyuan Seed and Nursery Company which is incorporated in the State of Delaware, announced that its operating subsidiary company in China, Shandong Zhouyuan Seed and Nursery Co., Ltd., will expect to benefit from the feed industry's...

Chinese pork prices drop by nearly 10% from peak price
BEIJING - The average pork price has dropped to 12.61 yuan this week, 9.61 percent lower than the peak price on Aug. 9, said China's economic planner after pork prices nearly doubled in the past eight months due to short supply and mounting production...

Zhongpin Presents at the 4th IMS World Pork Conference, Receives Two Awards
CHINA - Zhongpin Inc, a leading Chinese meat and food processing company presented a paper at the 4th IMS World Pork Conference in Nanjing, last week.

Pork producers worldwide sustaining unprecedented losses
CHINA - Pork producers attending the 4th International Meat Secretariat (IMS) World Pork Conference in Nanjing China, have expressed concern at the state of the pork production industry worldwide.

Price increases are a matter of perspective
CHINA - Though the consumer price index (CPI) keeps rising rapidly, the producer price index (PPI), a leading indicator of production costs, shows a declining trend. This suggests that the increase in the CPI is mainly the result of price hikes for food....

Pork prices drop for 7th consecutive week, egg prices slightly up
CHINA - The average wholesale price of pork from 17 to 23 September saw a week-on-week decline of 0.8 percent, said the Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday.

China Says Ban on Hog Growth Enhancer Improves Food Safety
CHINA - China, the world's biggest pork consumer, said enforcing a "categorical" ban on pork produced with growth enhancers, including ractopamine, is part of its campaign to improve food safety.

China Pork Supply Unlikely To Rebound Till Mid'08;Prices High
SHANGHAI - China's pork supply may not fully rebound to normal levels until mid-2008, and production costs remain high, so prices are likely to stay relatively high till then, an industry official said Friday.

'China sharing disease details'
CHINA - China is ready to share information and experiences with the international community on animal disease surveillance and control regarding either bird flu or the blue ear pig disease, according to an official of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization...

China denies being source of pig disease
CHINA - China is not the source of blue ear disease outbreaks among pigs in Vietnam and Myanmar, Ministry of Agriculture officials said on Monday, adding that the disease in China closely resembles that found in the United States.

Beijing Uses RFID to Track Quality Problems
CHINA - The largest pork trade platform opened in Bali Bridge produce wholesale market, Beijing, and begun its pilot operation yesterday.

China's pig disease worries the world
CHINA - At first, it was just some of the piglets. The mother gave birth to 13, all of them stillborn. Within a few weeks, however, she and other adult pigs in neighboring stalls became feverish and died. By the end of the summer, all but a handful of...

U.S. Pork Industry Leadership Engages With China
CHINA - U.S. pork industry leaders on Tuesday (Sept. 18) returned from a nine day visit to Beijing and Nanjing organized by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) to take part in unprecedented exchanges with Chinese industry and government representatives...