Pig sector crisis demands urgent action on feed, says FEFAC

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As sky-high feed costs continue to take their toll on livestock producers, the European feed manufacturers' federation (FEFAC) this week called for urgent measures to free up grain markets and help ease pressure on the pigmeat sector. "EU authoritiesmust realise now that the pig farmers cannot wait until November 2011 for possible future market management measures to allow imports of competitive feed grains," FEFAC president Patrick Vanden Avenne told the organisations annual general meeting in Bruges. "The present exceptional market conditions clearly justify extending in particular the current temporary suspension of import duties for wheat and barley within the TRQs beyond the end of June 2011 and at least until the EU cereals harvest has been completed."