Pork producers allowed to pursue case in quarantine fight
AUSTRALIA - The High Court will allow Australian Pork Limited (APL) to pursue its case against quarantine measures for imported pig meat. The pork industry wants to overturn a decision by the Federal Government to allow imports from countries...

New research boost for pork industry
AUSTRALIA - Reducing soaring feed prices will be a focus of a new research centre for Australia's pork industry. The Pork Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), based at the University of Adelaide's Roseworthy campus, aims to pump millions...

Aussie Pork producers in court challenge over quarantine protocols for pig meat
AUSTRALIA - The pork industry's national representative body, Australian Pork Limited (APL) has announced today that it will launch a High Court challenge of the Government's new quarantine protocols for pigmeat.

Aussie Pork farmers under attack on two fronts
AUSTRALIA - Australian pork producers are under attack from the risk of disease-carrying imports and from subsidised imports, writes Pat Byrne in News Weely. Australian pork producers have challenged pork imports on both quarantine and probable...

Pig ruling could erode laws: McGauran
AUSTRALIA - The Federal Government has admitted Australia's quarantine system could have been wrecked by a controversial court case involving pork imports. Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran says pork producers should give up their legal...

Pig meat ban attempt fails
AUSTRALIA - Attempts by pork producers to stop the importation of pig meat from countries affected by Post-Weaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS) have failed. The full bench of the Federal Court has upheld an appeal by the Director of...

Federal Court backs pork quarantine
AUSTRALIA - The full bench of the Federal Court has saved the federal government from serious questions about the nation's quarantine system that could have threatened Australia's international trading system. The court upheld an appeal...

Australia the big loser if ethanol mandated
AUSTRALIA - The Livestock Feed Grain Users Group (LFGUG) has called on all Australian governments to be cognisant of the serious effects that a mandated / subsidised grain-based ethanol industry will have on all Australians through adverse knock on effects...

Pork, poultry in demand
AUSTRALIA - The world is eating more meat than ever before with the pork and poultry sectors the biggest winners from the growing demand. On average, every person now consumes more than 41 kilograms of meat each year, double the amount in the...

Biosecurity Australia must do better: agency boss
AUSTRALIA - Biosecurity Australia (BA), the agency responsible for import protocols, admits it will take time and hard work to regain the confidence of rural Australia. Farmers are angry over the approval of beef imports from Brazil, where there...

Pork producers clash with quarantine watchdog
AUSTRALIA - After months of building tension, a row boiled over this morning between pork producers and Australia's quarantine watchdog. Earlier this year producers won a legal battle against Biosecurity Australia over its decision to recommend...

Exporting pig parts to the US
AUSTRALIA - Science fiction would have us believe that in the not too distant future, we’ll live and look younger for longer and be free from all manner of disease. While that’s still some way off, the process of replacing organic bits with other...

NSW piggery free of PMWS disease
AUSTRALIA - Veterinary authorities have confirmed a New South Wales piggery is free of the post weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) disease. But investigations into a suspected case of PMWS in South Australia are continuing. The New...

Aussie Pig group happy with PMWS probe
AUSTRALIA - The Murray-Mallee Pig Producers Group says it is pleased with the way an investigation is being handled into a potential outbreak of a fatal pig disease in a South Australian piggery. The site has been quarantined while tests are undertaken...

Pig farmers may sue over PMWS disease fears
AUSTRALIA - Pig farmers are threatening to sue the federal government if tests confirm cases of an untreatable disease that could devastate Australia's pork industry. Authorities are investigating two possible cases of post-weaning multisystemic...