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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the United States is a concern for the sector. Appropriate measures to cope with AI outbreaks would allow a continued two percent growth during 2016.

Cattle inventories continue declining but financial programs to repopulate the domestic herd and improved genetics would contribute for a future stabilization.

China is a major producer of biofuels and production continues to increase.

Pakistan’s biotech regulatory system is currently on hiatus as the courts work to determine whether the provinces or federal government should regulate biotech crops.

The Australian federal government is very supportive of biotechnology and has committed considerable long-term funding to research and development.

On August 21, 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) announced that it had received an application for the establishment of a Kobe Beef Geographical Indication (GI).

A new rail border crossing was inaugurated Aug.25 at the Brownsville – Matamoros Port of Entry.

The Australian Department of Agriculture has released the draft Biosecurity (Biosecurity Import Risk Analyses) Regulation 2015 (BIRA regulation) for public consideration.

Uruguayan beef exports for 2016 are forecast at 395,000 tons carcass weight equivalent (cwe), the highest in the past ten years.

Export prices for nearly all grades of rice, except fragrant rice, declined further from the previous week’s level due to continued weakening of Thai baht.

Russian beef production is forecast to decline 4 percent as cattle inventories are expected to decrease 1.5 percent to 18.41 million head in 2016.

Despite a sharp fall in Ukraine’s GDP in 2015, broiler meat poultry production remained stable and is projected to increase 2 percent to 995,000 metric tons (MT) in 2016.