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African swine fever is approaching the borders of Bashkiria, the Department of Veterinary Medicine for the Republic reports. To date, 210 foci of African swine fever have been registered in 35 regions of Russia, including those neighboring Bashkiria. So, since the beginning of the year, the disease has been registered in Tatarstan, Mari El, Saratov and Samara regions. In late September and early O...

Director General of the National Union of Pig Breeders Yuri Kovalev recalled that the entire livestock industry was faced with a rapid rise in the cost of feed. Additional government support for livestock breeders will create conditions for price stabilization in Russia. Meat market experts voiced this point of view to journalists. Earlier, during a meeting between Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin...

Until June 1, the Government froze prices for sugar, until October 1 - for sunflower oil. Now it has decided to take up poultry meat, which has risen in price by almost 20% since the beginning of the year. Exact figures are not yet known. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, by the end of 2021, a “purchase price corridor” will be established, taking into account seasonality. Would freezing he...

While a recovery in China's pig population has led to a decline in pork meat exports in 2021, Chinese demand for American pork remains extremely strong and continues to play a key role in maximizing carcass value. During August, pork exports to China /Hong Kong increased by 23% to 231,283 tons worth $558 million (up 29%). With pork shipments also trending higher in Mexico, Southeast Asia, Central ...

Permians crashed in the suburbs On the Robinson helicopter that crashed in Lytkarino near Moscow, in addition to the pilot, there were 22-year-old Semyon Sadkov and 21-year-old Christina Kisel. They are both from the Perm region. The information was confirmed to RBC Perm by the relatives of the deceased. The girl's father is a clergyman Ioann Kisel, and the boy's father is the owner of a metal pro...

The source of the outbreak of African swine fever in the Perm region, recorded last week, could be food waste. Farmers took them in the canteen of the Suvorov Military School, said Maxim Tsukanov , deputy head of the State Veterinary Supervision Department of Rosselkhoznadzor . “On Monday, ASF was confirmed in the Sverdlovsk region, then in the Perm region. Owners of household plots said that they...

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has received $500 million to help prevent and control African swine fever (ASF), which could seriously harm the US pig industry if it reaches the United States. This week, Tom Vilsack announced that USDA Commodity Credit Corporation funds will be used to fight ASF. CCC, a wholly owned corporation established in 1933, implements certain ag...

The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia discussed measures to prevent the spread of ASF in a number of subjects of the Russian Federation. A meeting with the leadership of the regions, representatives of the Rosselkhoznadzor and veterinary services was held by the Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev. According to the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, the number of ASF outbreaks in the countr...

Since the beginning of the year, pork has risen in price by almost 13%. And one of the reasons is the raging African swine fever (ASF). Even large holdings that have invested billions of rubles in biosecurity cannot fully protect themselves from the virus. Some unwashed hands of an employee of the livestock complex - consider that they have lost all their livestock. This time, the situation with A...

Last month, Chinese pig farmers lost $75/chairman. And the situation is only getting worse. Pig prices are the lowest they have been in two years, and feed prices are skyrocketing. So, due to the shortage and rise in price of electricity, more than half of the soybean processing plants in North and Northeast China stopped. The price of soybean shot has jumped by $34 in the last week alone to $588/...

Since 2011, the number of pig breeders in the country has halved to 3,400, while the number of animals per farm has doubled, with each farmer having an average of 3,400 pigs. The largest farms are located in Limburg and Noord Brabant, with an average of 5,300 and 4,800 livestock respectively. Despite recent government plans to encourage farmers to go out of business to reduce nitrogen emissions, t...

Last year, Russia set a record for pork consumption over the past 30 years. In part, this can be called a “covid surprise”: Pork consumption by Russians in 2020 reached 27 kg per person, which was the highest result in the history of modern Russia. This is stated in the report available to RBC, prepared by the Center for Industry Expertise of the Russian Agricultural Bank. According to estimates, ...