Pig Industry News: France
Monday, May 20, 2013
Pig Producers ProtestFRANCE - Pig producers have been protesting this week about their business losses as pig prices have failed to cover rising feed prices. ...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Solution Sought for Brittany Pig ProcessorFRANCE - Administrators appointed to pig processor, GAD, are investigating all options to save the company....
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
French Plan to Rescue Pig SectorFRANCE - The French Agriculture Ministry has set out a three pronged attack to restore confidence in the French pig meat sector, following a round table meeting with pig sector representatives, writes...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
French Pig Industry Argues over COOLFRANCE - In the absence of any legal sanction, the French charcuterie industry federation, FICT, and the retailers' federation, FCD, have opposed proposals from the meat industry syndicate SNIV-SNCP to...
Monday, April 08, 2013
French Study Use of Boar-Taint PorkFRANCE - A study has revealed the challenges of further processing pork with boar taint to overcome the smell....
Monday, March 25, 2013
Adisseo Held Second Swine Conference in ParisFRANCE - Expert speakers from different countries updated fifty of Adisseo’s customers on various economic, nutritional and management questions at Adisseo’s Swine Conference in Paris on 5 February....
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
France Sets New Course for AgricultureFRANCE - After 50 years of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), French farm minister Stéphane Le Foll is setting aside France's postwar productiviste past as he prepares to turn the country into a European...
Monday, February 11, 2013
Ceva Records Double-Digit Growth for Third Successive YearFRANCE - Consolidated sales of the Ceva Group reached €607.3 million (US$782 million) in 2012, up by 14 per cent on 2011 and 10 per cent at a constant perimeter and exchange rates....
Thursday, February 07, 2013
French Meat Sector Calls for Country of Origin ProtectionFRANCE - The French meat industry organisation SNIV-SNCP has called for a strong defence of country of origin labelling for French pork products from the pig industry agency Inaporc....
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Ceva Repro Range Symposium Celebrated in FranceFRANCE - On 28 November, Ceva France hosted 200 people at the ISPAIA Instituted located in Ploufragan (Brittany) on the theme of hyperprolificity and heterogeneity in reproduction. ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
French Farmers Demand Flexible CAP AidANALYSIS - Rising production costs in the French agricultural sector have more than countered the improvement in prices and next year the situation is expected to get worse, writes Chris Harris....
Friday, November 30, 2012
France Rises as Pork Supplier in 2012FRANCE - France has a significant impact on market conditions in other Member States of the EU. Last year, France was the sixth largest supplier of pig meat to the UK, but due to lower shipments from other...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
French Prime Minister Demands Reform SatisfactionFRANCE - The French Prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault has called for a successful European Policy reform but stresses French interests must be satisfied....
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
26th SPACE: Looking to the FutureFRANCE - The 26th SPACE trade fair took place from 11 to 14 September 2012 in Rennes in a very positive atmosphere, with much high-quality dialogue, both at exhibitors’ stands and at the 50 organised...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
France Urged to Meet Sow Stall BanFRANCE - Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) has delivered a 12,500-signature petition to the French Agricultural Ministry and is calling for urgent government action to enforce the 2013 EU ban on sow stalls....
Friday, September 21, 2012
FAO and OIE Work on Formal AccordFRANCE - The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN and the World Animal Health Organisation are to work on a formal accord to address the overlaps in the mandates of the two agencies and facilitate...
Thursday, September 20, 2012
International Coordination Stabilising Food Prices FRANCE - Better international coordination and increased information exchange are helping to ease tight markets, French President François Hollande and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva agreed...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
French Govt Acts to Save Producers from Increasing CostsFRANCE - With the costs of production, in particular grain prices, increasing, the French government has proposed a strategic action plan that will help producers deal with escalating costs and in the...
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Major Pig Breeder to End Pig CastrationFRANCE - Cooperl Arc Atlantique, a major group of French pig breeders accounting for 20 per cent of the whole pig production in France, announced it will propose plans designed to completely stop the castration...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Hendrix Opens New Genomics Lab in FranceFRANCE - Hendrix Genetics is dedicated to delivering Better Breeding Today. Consequently, it has established a new world-class Research & Development centre in France. The new Genomics Laboratory is a...
Friday, September 07, 2012
Minimising Pain in Farm Animals FRANCE - The French National Institute for Agricultural Research, INRA, has appointed an expert committee to review the issue of pain in food-producing farm animals. ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Biomin.net Now Available in FrenchFRANCE - Biomin has now launched a French version of the corporate web site, www.biomin.net....
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Global Protein Market in State of Structural ChangeFRANCE - The world is no longer one of structural surpluses, it is a world of structural scarcity David Nelson, a global strategist with Rabobank's Food and Agribusiness Research and Advisory Group told...
Friday, June 08, 2012
WMC - Industry Warned over Unintended Consequences of ChangesFRANCE - The global meat industry was warned to take a lesson to from the decline of the horse slaughter industry in the US at the World Meat Congress in Paris last week, writes Chris Harris. ...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Sustainability Theme to World Meat CongressFRANCE - The World Meat Congress opened its doors on Tuesday (5 June) with its eyes firmly set on the subject of sustainable production, writes Chris Harris in Paris. ...
WMC - Meeting Challenges to Global Meat IndustryFRANCE - The global meat industry has two main challenges - to meet the growing world demand for food and the challenge to meet environmental concerns, writes Chris Harris from the World Meat Congress...
WMC - IMS in Partnership with FAO on Livestock EmissionsFRANCE - The International Meat Secretariat is to join forces with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations to establish global standards to assessing the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
WMC - Battling Threat of African Swine FeverFRANCE - The upsurge of African Swine Fever, particularly in Russia, and the failure of conventional prevention and control measures to counter its spread have underlined the need for a major shift in...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
New French Minister Faces Age-old ProblemsANALYSIS - France's new farming and food minister, Stéphane Le Foll, has been meeting representatives from the farming sector and starting in June, he will receive food industry delegations....
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Veterinarians Demand Faster DiagnosticsFRANCE - Speed and accuracy are the key features that veterinarians and farmers want from diagnostic tests, a new Europe wide survey has revealed. ...
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