Q4 2008: Marked Drop in Pig Meat Production
PRAGUE - Meat production in total went down by 11 per cent year on year in the fourth quarter of 2008 due to a significant decrease in pig meat and poultry meat production.

Hard Times for Pig Sector
CZECH REPUBLIC - Numbers of all pigs are down sharply, particularly in the breeding herd, and the country is becoming more dependent on imports of pigs and pork.

Czech Republic Pig Breeding Loses Self-Sufficiency
CZECH REPUBLIC - The Czech Republic is losing self-sufficiency in pig breeding which will lead to growth in pork imports in the coming years. This, it is felt, will have a negative impact on pork pric...

Czech Meat Output Down 2.5% in Second Quarter
PRAGUE - Czech meat output fell by 2.5 percent year-on-year to 152,143 tonnes in the second quarter of 2008, the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) reported on Friday.

Czech pork prices rise on falling pig numbers
PRAGUE - Czech farmers reduced pig numbers by nearly 80,000 to 2.661 million last year, and continue cutting the numbers this year owing to low buyout prices, according to statistics the Agricultural Chamber...

Subsidies Yield Profits But Pig Production Suffers
CZECH REPUBLIC - Profit in Czech agriculture nearly doubled year-on-year to a preliminary Kc13.7bn in 2007, namely because of EU and national subsidies.

Czech Pig Meat Production on the Up
CZECH REPUBLIC - The Czech Statistical Office (CSU) released the latest results for animal products yesterday. Pig meat production went up by 2.4 % compared to the previous year.

Czech pig breeders want direct subsidies, plan rally
CZECH REPUBLIC - Czech pig breeders want direct subsidies worth Kc2.5 per kilo of live weight or about Kc1 billion in total from the Agriculture Ministry, Agricultural Chamber president Jan Veleba told...

Czech producers fight rising feed costs with modern technology
CZECH REPUBLIC - Farm AGRA Beznice near Bechyne in Czech Republic and BAUER TECHNICS recently invited a number of producers to visit its new installation of a Nedap Velos ESF system. The aim was to discuss...

Cereal prices stunt pig progress
CZECH REPUBLIC - The Czech Agricultural Chamber (AKČR) has highlighted growing problems in the supply of pork and pork products caused by a decrease in the redemption price of slaughtered pigs. At...

Czech pig market facing crisis
CZECH REPUBLIC - Czech pig breeders and pig meat processors are facing crisis, says president of the Agricultural Chamber Jan Veleba.

Nedap RFID Enables High Level Of Sow Management In Czech Replublic.
CZECH REPUBLIC - Nedap continues its roll out of Nedap Velos throughout all parts of Europe by installing the first Czech installation, end of May 2007, on a 350 sow unit.

Czech pig breeders protest foreign pork imports
Prague - Some 200 Czech pig farmers gathered Monday at the Dolni Dvoriste/Wullowitz border crossing to Austria in order to protest imports of pork to the Czech Republic.

Farmers to protest, not blockade Czech-Austrian crossing Mon
CZECH REPUBLIC - Czech farmers will stage a protest on the Czech-Austrian border crossing in Dolni Dvoriste on Monday instead of the planned blockade, and will not cause problems for transport, Agricultural...

Czech farmers plan blockades over pork imports from Austria
CZECH REPUBLIC - Czech farmers plan blockades of border crossings with Austria by end-March in protest against increasing pork imports from Austria, Agricultural Chamber president Jan Veleba told CTK ...