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Availability of the livestock trade dataset

Posted by hlentz on 01 May 2016 at 10:01 GMT

Data on pig movements cannot be made freely available to the general public due to legal restrictions. The reason is that used data contains private information that cannot be disclosed without the individual agreement of each German pig farmer. Data may be provided to any interested party that requests it to the Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten (StMELF) under the contact provided in the article after anonymization.

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