EU pig prices: Brisk sale at low price level
EU - On the European pigs-mature-for-slaughter-market, the prices continue to stabilise. Great demand is observed on the part of the slaughter companies, meeting declining supply.

Europe at odds over GM
EU - GM crops are likely to be a continuous dividing factor in the EU, a meeting between environment ministers showed last week.

EU must guarantee our food supplies
EUROPE - Just four years after the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, concerns over food security are being discussed at the European Parliament, writes Jonathan Evans, Conservative MEP for Wales.

EU pig prices: Gaining ground all over
EU - After weeks of price pressure, the the slaughter pig market seems to be stabilising throughout Europe. There are still large numbers of finished pigs on offer, however, quotations are reported unchanged from across the continent.

World pigmeat prices continue to fall
EU - Worldwide pig meat prices have continued to fall, with EU mainland pigmeat producer quotes slipping from €1.50 to €1.25 over the past three months.

EU pig prices: Market stability achieved through private storage?
EU - As a result of the quantities of pigs on offer, the European pig market continues to be exerted pressure on; thus, the slaughter companies are hardly able to clear the market.

Private storage aid introduced for pigmeat in response to difficult market situation
EU - The Management Committee for Pigmeat on the 18 October 2007 backed a Commission proposal to introduce a private storage aid scheme for pigmeat in response to the current difficult situation on the market.

EU pig prices: Markets still under pressure
EU - Hope for the prices to quickly stabilise on the European markets has ended in smoke over the past few days. The quantities of slaughter pigs now being offered continue to be burdensome to an extent that does not allow the markets to stabilise.

Euro approval for the World's largest animal health business
EUROPE - Schering-Plough Corporation has received European Commission approval for its planned acquisition of Organon BioSciences, from Akzo Nobel.

EFSA Assessing Nanoparticles And Cloned Meat
EU - Developing a methodology for assessing the risk of nanoparticles and the meat of cloned animals are part of the ongoing work of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the organisation's head told EU parliamentarians this week.

The growing threat of disease in Europe
EU - EU officials are continuing to face disease threats to European agriculture on a number of fronts.

EU pig prices: Large supply has prices flagging!
EU - The large supply of slaughter pigs is currently causing the European pig market trouble indeed.

CME Hogs Slide On Cash, Softer Corn, No Buyers
EU - CME hogs are lower on further cash hog price weakness, eroding CBOT corn prices and lack of buyer interest. Oct hogs are down 42 points at 57.80 cents a pound, and Dec is 55 points lower at 59.75 cents.

Summer export business thrives for TOPIGS
EUROPE - Market difficulties have not halted TOPIGS export business. The company widened its activities in Romania and Brazil during the summer months.

EU pig prices: Large supplies and distortion
EU - The European finished pig market continues to be affected by oversuply. At the same time, the companies’ slaughter lines are running at full speed.

Looming shortage of Scottish pigmeat?
EUROPE - A major pig processing company in Scotland says eight Scottish pig producers, supplying around 11 per cent of the Scottish pig herd, have indicated their intention to pull out of pig farming.

EU pig prices: Bottoming out?
EU - The European finished pigs market is a little less pressurised this week. For seasonal reasons, consignments of slaughter pigs are still readily available.

GM Policy Has EU livestock In A Stranglehold
EU - FEFAC President Mr Pedro Corrêa de Barros called on the EU Farm Council to take urgent measures ensuring adequate access of livestock farmers to feed materials.

"Prevention is better than Cure"
EU - The European Commission adopted today a Communication setting out the EU's animal health strategy for 2007-13.

EU pig prices: Seasonal downturn!
EU - Now, at mid-September, pressure is clearly being exerted on the European pigs-mature-for-slaughter market.