Stone Age farmers brought own pigs to Europe
EUROPE - Pig fossil DNA has been used by scientists to determine the arrival of farmers into Europe during the latter days of the Stone Age.

EU pig prices: Prices are stagnating!
EU - This week, quotations on the European finished pigs market are stagnating for the most part.

Porcine Circovirus Diseases project making good progress
EU - The project management team of the current multidisciplinary and multinational EC-funded research project on porcine circovirus diseases (STREP: PCVD www.pcvd.org) and the linked EC-funded PCVD Specific Support Action (SSA pcvd-ssa.vri.cz/) would...

Europe's Livestock Farmers Threatened By Higher Costs And Import Tide
EU - Pig, cattle and poultry breeders across Europe are struggling to stay afloat, weighed down by soaring feed prices but powerless to pass costs on to consumers.

EU pig prices: Inconsistent development!
EU - For the most part, quotations are increasing on the European finished pig market.

EU pig prices: Confidence returns!
EU - Pig prices are heralded to develop in a friendly way now, after they were found to stabilise across the European finished pig market last week.

Eu pig export ban lifted
EU - News of the re-opening of export markets in the EU to British pig meat will give the industry a much-needed boost says the British Pig Executive (BPEX).

European pig industry 'closing down'
EU - An increasing number of European arable farmers are doing their sums and quitting pig finishing.

EU pig prices: Markets for live pigs and meat prove to be diverging!
EU - This week, the markets for live pigs and meat are diverging throughout the European slaughter pig market.

EU pig prices: Balanced market – sinking slaughter weights
EU - This week, the European slaughter pig market turns out to be balanced for the most part.

GMO Zero Tolerance Devastating For EU Livestock Feed
EU - Coceral, the European grain and feedstuffs traders and Fefac, the EU compound feed manufacturers have welcomed the new EU Commission report on the economic impact of unapproved GMOs.

EU pig prices: Prices stabilise
EU - The European finished pig market proves to be steady this week.

Red 2G colouring to become outlawed
UK - Following a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) evaluation of the food colouring Red 2G, a European Commission committee has decided it should be banned in Europe.

EU pig prices: High temperatures bull the market
EU - The overall atmosphere is very friendly on the European finished pig market. Record temperatures measured in Northern and Central Europe have also caused prices to jump.

Complacency over PCVDs, could threaten global pig health
EU - The team heading-up the European Commission-funded research project on porcine circovirus diseases (PCVD), says that imporant diseases may be exisiting unnoticed in some herds, because farmers and veterinary surgeons have become too familiar with...

EU pig prices: Scarce supply – positive trend!
EU - The past week has seen stable prices in the European salughter pigs market. From the north European countries in particular, market participants report about just few live pigs being on offer.

EU pig prices: Market is stabilising!
EU - As for the new week, the prices seem to be stabilising throughout the European pigs-mature-for-slaughter market.

EU Investigates Easing BSE-Related Feed Ban
EU - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease', has been the target of European research for many years, especially as the disease has succeeded in wreaking havoc on the lives of farmers and consumers alike.

Summary EU pigmeat managment committee meeting
UK - The pigmeat managment committee meeting summary - June 2007.

EU pig prices: Slightly weak despite narrow live offer!
EU - The new week’s prices tend to be weakening a little all over the European slaughter pig market. Supply is comparably narrow of pigs finished pigs, but meets good demand on the part of the slaughter companies.