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Understanding the decisive factors of pork consumption The IFIP has developed an in-depth analysis of pork consumption designed to better understand the decisive factors governing consumption, either at home or in catering outlets, while taking into account the effect of prices, product presentation methods (weight, preparation level, packaging, distribution channels, etc.) and consumer profiles.Over the years, analysis of the data from Kantar panels has made trends emerge. They will be examined in more detail through more in-depth analyses per product type. Furthermore, this approach to consumption dynamics in France will be rounded off by similar analyses in different European coun-tries.

Preparing the development of uncastrated boar productionThere is a risk with meat from uncastrated boars of unpleasant smells during cooking; for this reason, males are traditionally cas-trated a few days after birth. However, the practice of castration is called into question by community groups. Most European trade organisations have committed to stop castration by 2018. In the meantime, several crucial problems must be solved.

The biggest problem is detecting pig carcasses with unpleasant odours in the slaughterhouse. The IFIP is working in conjunction with the Brittany ARIP [regional interprofessional association for the pig farming sector] and with the INRA [French national insti-tute of agronomics research] on a programme financed by Valorial [research institute on agribusiness innovation] to test the effecti-veness of various odour detection techniques, some of which are highly innovative.

In addition, the IFIP has tested the effects of meat from strong-odour carcasses on different types of processed products (dry sausages, sausages, dry-cured ham, cooked ham, pâté, lardons, etc.). Overall, the result is that meat from strong-odour carcasses can be used in mix products, particularly if they are not meant for household cooking.

As far as farming is concerned, the uncastrated boar has a higher feed efficiency, which is both an economic and an environmental advantage. Studies have been carried out to optimise the feed management system for these animals and analyse their beha-viour in farms according to whether or not boars are mixed with sows.

Integrating questions, from the consumer to the pig farm

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Managing pig welfare

European regulatory provisions prompt operatives to manage livestock welfare, which in turn calls for the development of welfare assessment methods and the promotion of corrective measures.

This is the case for the slaughterhouse (EC Council regulation 1099/2009): slaughterers are responsible for the welfare of the pigs they process. They must therefore be provided with self-run pig welfare diagnosis tools, implement «good practices» and be aware of possible corrective measures in the event of a problem.

The IFIP partners companies in this initiative: audits, training, draf-ting of a good practices guide, self-run diagnosis scorecard, deve-lopment of a control plan.

Likewise where transportation is concerned, assessment criteria for transportation quality are currently under consideration.

As far as farms are concerned, a self-run diagnosis scorecard for animal welfare is in progress, building on the ongoing efforts of the methodological work carried out as part of the European «Wel-fare Quality» programme. Operatives on the farms play a crucial role, both through their observations of the animals and their be-haviour. Thus, in conjunction with the INRA, the IFIP is studying the effects of farm operative behaviour during handling phases (weaning sows, batching for the finishing stage, etc.).

Finally, solutions to bring about improvements are still being consi-dered, in particular regarding floor comfort in living quarters.

Controlling environmental impacts

Sustainability objectives, the upcoming advent of environmental communication on products, and the management of impact im-provement by operatives, all require tools and references on the environmental impacts of pigs throughout their production cycle, from farm to fork. As part of the «Livestock Farming and Environ-ment» Joint Technological Research Network, the IFIP has spearhea-ded a focus on Lifecycle Analysis, an internationally-standardized method to quantify environmental impacts (eutrophication, global warming, fossil fuel depletion, acidification, etc).

The objective is to produce pork product impact data on that take into account the different processing processes and the full diversity of farming systems and practices.

To reach this goal, the acquisition of data on pollutant flows must be continued. Regarding greenhouse gases, the IFIP is striving to fina-lize the development of a simple and reliable measurement method for farming, spanning buildings to waste spreading.

Finally, for the livestock sector, the IFIP has drafted a guide of Good Environmental Practices in Livestock Farming.

Managing pig welfare Controlling environmental impacts

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Contextualizing French sector competitiveness

Competitiveness is a result of technical performance and produc-tion factor costs.

The IFIP handles routine follow-up and exploitation of this data for the livestock farming sector (technical and economic manage-ment data) and spot initiatives for the slaughterhouse-processing sector (costs, prices, margins).

The data for the livestock farming sector is analysed as part of the European InterPig group, which the IFIP helps to run.

But competitiveness is also a result of other factors such as regula-tory, tax and social provisions, as well as aspects of public policy.

In 2010, the IFIP updated its data on labour productivity in lives-tock farming, the criterion which is most representative of a re-lative loss of competitiveness of French production in relation to northern European countries.

Integrating questions, from the consumer to the pig farm

Contextualizing French sector

European Group Interpig

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Analysing sector competiveness in the large consumer centres

At both the international and European scale, pork sectors are subject to fairly volatile dynamics, with business mergers, market stances in line with public health events or currency fluctuations, opportunities impacting production costs (labour, feed costs). For example, wor-king conditions in Germany currently provide a significant compe-titive advantage to industries using a large workforce (slaughter-but-cher operations, processing). The result is competiveness differentials within which French positions are no longer as secure as they have been.

This is why the IFIP continuously monitors sector evolution in the large production centres worldwide, their production costs and the conditions shaping prices at the different sector levels: Europe, Ca-nada, United States, Brazil, etc.

The IFIP also carries out marketplace monitoring: pork markets, international flows of pork cuts, markets of raw feed materials.

These observations answer to a strong demand from all French sec-tor operatives to be able to place themselves in relation to their com-petitors.

This data makes it possible to update the industry trend charts regu-larly published with the help of INAPORC.

Furthermore, the IFIP regularly analyses the specific dynamics of countries undergoing rapid change: thus, Denmark is currently un-dergoing a rapid mutation of its livestock farming and slaughterhouse structures.

Breaking into European research and development networksThe European commission is pursuing an active integration policy for the European skills hubs. In this context, it finances research programmes and encourages the creation of skills networks.

The IFIP is a partner on several European research programmes: Q Pork Chain, Welfare Quality, Freshlabel.

Developing activity in the international arena

Analysing sector competiveness in the large

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In 2010, the IFIP organized an international forum on imaging applied to livestock. This forum created the possibility for dialogue between teams (Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom in particular) that share the same methodological problems or the same application objectives. The leading European actors decided to pursue this dialogue as part of a European COST (network for Cooperation in Science and Technology), which is now being put together.

Furthermore, the IFIP acts as a partner for responses to Commis-sion offers on current questions; the ALCASDE programme aimed at the socio-economic status review of animal welfare questions (for pigs, the surgical castration issue) and the CONTROL POST programme, which is still in progress, aims at standardising and modernising the stops used for long-haul pig transportation (essentially breeding stock).

Partnering French companies in the international arenaChina and some eastern countries, like Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are developing significant pig production projects with a view to meeting domestic market needs. The IFIP has positioned itself so as to coordinate the response of French companies to propose a wide variety of offers, including livestock building facilities, feed manufacture, waste management, genetic selection and slaugh-terhouse-processing facilities. Along with this activity, training for management and operational personnel is offered.

Farm Animal Imaging Days programme

June 16-18, 2010Rennes, France

List of ParticipantsAustralia SCOTT TECHNOLOGY AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, Sean STARLING

Belgium CLASSCO, Stefaan KEYMOLEN GENT UNIVERSITY, Stefaan LESCOUHIER, Marc SEYNAEVE

Canada AGRIDIGIT INC, Dany GARANT

Denmark CAROMETEC A/S, Henrik ALMIND, Klavs SOERENSEN DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (DMRI), Marchen HVIID, Eli Vibeke OLSEN

France AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Maryline KOUBA CEMAGREF, Guylaine COLLEWET, François MARIETTE FRANCEAGRIMER, Christophe MASSY, Alain NICTOU, Blandine THEOT FRANCE HYBRIDES, Didier GOUPIL IFIP - Institut du Porc, Christophe BAZIN, Sylviane BOULOT, Gérard DAUMAS, Mathieu MONZIOLS, Gilles

NASSY, Antoine VAUTIER INRA, Caroline CLOUARD, Eliel GONZALEZ GARCIA, Mélanie JOUHANNEAU, Paul MEURICE, David VAL-LAILLET INRA - BDR & CRII, Olivier MOREL IRCAD, Luc SOLER «MIDERB - OFFICE FOR EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY IN BRITTANY»,

Alice RUCZINSKI NUCLEUS, Bruno LIGONESCHE ONIRIS, Eric BETTI, Claude GUINTARD UNIPORC OUEST, Pascal LE DUOT

Germany CLASSPRO, Martin NEUMEYR CSB SYSTEM AG, Klemens van BETTERAY MRI - INSTITUTE OF SAFETY AND QUALITY OF MEAT, Michael JUDAS UNIVERSITY MUNICH, LIVESTOCK CENTER, Prisca KREMER, Maren SCHMIDT, Armin SCHOLZ

Hungary KAPOSVAR UNIVERSITY, Tamás DONKO, Gabriella HOLLO, Gabor MILISITS

Lithuania LITHUANIAN VETERINARY ACADEMY, Daiva RIBIKAUSKIENE

Netherlands TOPIGS, Egiel HANENBERG

Norway ANIMALIA,Morten ROE

Poland ZAKLAD TECHNIKI MIKROPROCESOROWEJ, Maciej BOCIANSKI, Jerzy BRZESKI

Spain IRTA, Albert BRUN, Anna CARABUS, Maria FONT I FURNOLS, Marina GISPERT

Sweden SWEDISH BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Håkan JONSSON

United Kingdom BPEX (Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board), Kim MATTHEWS SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Lutz BUNGER, Nicola LAMBE, Kirsty MCLEAN

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Organizing CommitteeKarine BAGORY, Anne BOURDEAU, David CAUSEUR, Gérard DAUMAS, Thierry FAURE,

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Partnering French companies

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Broadening the range of product offeringsPork consumption is supported by a large range of processed pro-ducts that correspond to a diversity of price, tastes, and occasions for consumption. It is the IFIP’s intent to partner innovation by offering product models still in need of industrial and marketing development.

These product models are based on new processes, new ways of creating value from raw materials, new product presentations or the pursuit of options made possible by new packaging techni-ques.

Developing self-run diagnosis tools and decision-making aids for operatives

The IFIP is developing self-run diagnosis tools and decision-ma-king aids for operatives who have to deal with more and more regulatory requirements, have more and more precise informa-tion at their disposal, or position themselves in a rapidly changing context, like food price volatility for example.

Regarding the management plan for animal welfare in the slau-ghterhouse, the IFIP is continuing work with operatives on the development of auto-assessment indicators linked to a decision tree to manage corrective measures.

Promoting innovation

Broadening the range of product offerings Developing self-run diagnosis tools

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Regarding animal welfare on the farm, an intensive effort is underway on self-assessment indicators; the objective is to give pig farmers a means to manage animal welfare conditions on their own, without being tied down by regulatory obligations as to the means used.

During the year 2010, the METHASIM simulator went online, ena-bling operatives to analyse the economic advantage of metha-nization depending on their situation and modes of energy and heat recovery. This simulator is particularly useful at a time when the buy-back price of electricity is once again under discussion.

Regarding environmental management, the IFIP has participated in the development of two tools:- DECIBEL (individualized diagnostic and advisory tool geared to

farm buildings) which has an energy diagnostics capability,- A waste composition calculator aimed at improving fertilization

management of agricultural land.

Finally, again for the livestock farming sector, the IFIP has develo-ped monthly estimate models of production costs and margins for the different types of pig barns. This tool aims at making mana-gement of barn performance sharper even though the technical and economic data is only exploited once a year.

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Networking with public research teams

Since 2008, the IFIP and the INRA’s Joint Research Team SENAH [farming systems, human and animal nutrition] have been wor-king together as part of a Joint Technological Research Team. The aim is to develop activities within the shared scope: diet, welfare, reproduction, meat quality. These partnerships make it possible to reflect together on the objectives to be reached and the schedu-ling of common research projects. In 2010, the joint technological research team made it possible to set up a CIFRE-sponsored doc-toral thesis which aims at integrating the variability of individual feeding responses into the INRAPORC programme, which had been built on mean responses.

The Joint Technological Research Team has also facilitated the implementation of a common reference laboratory for dosing skatole and androstenone, two strong-odour substances found in uncastrated boars.

Furthermore, the INRA has initiated a vast programme on lives-tock farming and environmental questions, dubbed «Tomorrow’s Livestock Farming». The IFIP is an active partner in the develop-ment of the contents of this programme, with the objective of mobilizing the skills and the means that only the Institute could to solve a problem.

Networking with research and development teams

The IFIP is part of several Joint Technological Research Networks in contact with Agricultural or Agricultural and Industrial Institu-tes.

The IFIP is at the head of 2 of them: - the «Livestock farming and environment» Joint Technological

Research Network, which was granted a two-year extension in 2010.

- the «Economy of the livestock sectors» Joint Technological Re-search Network, approved in 2010.

These networks deal with core questions livestock technical insti-tutes shared, in the areas of the economy and the environment, while benefiting from the skills of other technical institutes and partners in the public research sector.

Furthermore, the IFIP heads the «pork research and experimental sciences» Scientific Interest Group, which is a source of expertise and a consensus-building agency between the R&D actors of the pork sector (IFIP, the Brittany and Pays de Loire Regional Chambers of Agriculture) in conjunction with public research (INRA, CEMA-GREF [environmental research institute], Ploufragan ANSES [natio-nal public health agency]).

Synergizing networks

Networking with public Networking with research and development

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European networks

The IFIP is a member of the European Welfare Quality® Network set up as a result of the Welfare Quality research programme in order to maintain dialogue between animal welfare specialists on assessment methods in farms.

Furthermore, the FANi Days forum was a platform to active par-ticipation of the IFIP in the development of a European COST network project on the applications of imaging to livestock. This COST network should be established in 2011.

European networks

Financial support: Programme National de Développement Agricole et Rural (Casdar),

Inaporc and FranceAgriMer.

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