When I look at today’s beef barons they pale into insignificance compared with the global meat empire of the Vestey organisation for the last 120 years.

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Saudi dairy Giant secures feed supply in Argentina

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JBS SA will ease Argentine beef exports to focus on domestic sales after government controls prompted the company to close a plant, according to a Bloomberg News report.

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JBS SA, the world’s largest beef producer, is cutting Argentine exports to focus on domestic sales after government restrictions prompted a plant closing.

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HEIFERS made to $860 at the annual Naracoorte weaner heifer sale on Friday, with Angus to the fore of demand.

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VICTORIANS now have another reason to love their lamb this Australia Day, as new research reveals the secret to boosting the meat’s healthy qualities.

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Police say a woman, understood to be the wife of high-profile businessman Alan Bond, has been found dead at his home in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe.

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Results from MLA’s December butcher survey, carried out by Millward Brown, indicated that 36% of butchers rated beef sales as ‘very good’ to ‘excellent’ during the month, matched by the performance of pork sales.

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Cargill Inc. reported $100 million in earnings from continuing operations for its fiscal 2012 second quarter, ended Nov. 30, 2011, on revenues of $33.3 billion. That’s an 88 percent decrease in earnings, from $832 million for the same period a year ago, but a 17 percent increase in revenues from $28.5 billion in fiscal 2011.

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Australia's cattle lobby group, the Cattle Council, is proposing to take a slice of farmer's levies.

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Dirty Derryn is taking time off from trawling through internet pedo pages,now the little t-urd (rymes with herd) is ruing the reputation of restaurants with his phone hacking mates at the Herald Sun Mark Dyer and company.

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AGFORCE'S Richard Pietsch has given a big "thumbs up" to this year's Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) Sam Kekovich Australia Day lamb campaign, but says the lamb industry still has a way to go before hitting the highs of 2011.

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While most food service segments worldwide are struggling under the weight of a listless global economy, McDonald's Corporation last week announced global comparable sales growth of 7.4pc in November.

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WOOLWORTHS today introduced certified Meat Standards Australia graded Australian beef to its shelves.

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Year after year we are recruited to join the war against all things unAustralian and are told to eat our rations of lamb chops.

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SUPPLY more than doubled from last year and there was plenty of enthusiasm from the large crowd of buyers to match at last Friday’s annual Goulburn-Crookwell crossbred ewe sale. An impressive yarding of about 16,500 ewes were presented to an eager crowd for the region’s first major sheep sale of the new year.

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ROMA saleyards is Australia's largest cattle selling centre with modern state-of-the-art weighing and selling facilities. In 2011 the throughput totalled 236,752 for store sales and 74,569 for prime sales.

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AUSTRALIA's largest kangaroo meat processor says the long awaited resumption of trade with Russia and China could take place within the next six months.

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LIBERAL Senator for NSW Bill Heffernan has slammed a report indicating fears over foreign ownership of agricultural land are unfounded, saying the report is flawed.

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AUSTRALIAN consumers who are not stupid are being urged to buy clean, green local produce to support Aussie farmers this Australia Day.

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CKE Restaurants Inc. has reached a development agreement with AML Foods Limited to build Carl’s Jr. restaurants in the Bahamas over the next five years. The first restaurant is scheduled to open in late 2012.

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Today, most poultry producers are aware of the need to decrease the use of antimicrobial drugs because of growing consumer demand and governmental pressure to raise poultry without antibiotics.

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The Brazil-U.S. Business Council announced it named Cargill Chairman and CEO Greg Page as its chairman, succeeding John Faraci, CEO and chairman of International Paper.

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JBS Concludes its Bond Offering in the US

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McDonald’s has signed up to sponsor the Olympics for a further eight years, meaning athletes and fans will be offered its burgers and fries in the official restaurants at Games venues until 2020.

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Brazil's Seara Alimentos, a subsidiary of meat processor Marfrig, announced it has begun producing new lines of salami, processed ham and sausages this month in Mato Grosso do Sul state, as well as three new lines of meat-based pâtés in Santa Catarina state.

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The U.S. agreed yesterday to import pork products from Brazil, the Brazilian Minister of AgricultureMendes Ribeiro Filho said yesterday in a press release.

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During this period, 1.347 billion chickens were slaughtered, 2.8 per cent up from the previous quarter and five per cent more than the same quarter in 2010, Terra reports.

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The impact of the Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) measure on Canadian cattle exports is significant, says the Canadian Cattlemen's Association.

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has laid 60 criminal charges against Brampton-based Maple Lodge Farms, Canada’s largest independent chicken processor, alleging violations of federal animal health regulations.

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Piñera and Mujica committed to expand their countries Antarctic efforts

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OSI Group Poultry Development Co. announced the grand opening of a new modern feed mill located in Rushan, Weihei, Shandong Province in China.

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DanePork, a privately owned slaughterhouse in Denmark, has applied for planning permission to increase production from 90 tonnes to 600 tonnes a day of slaughtered pigs. The planned expansion will not take place immediately says the company, but when it is complete it will mean over 40,000 pigs being slaughtered a week. This compares with Danish Crown's flagship Horsens slaughterhouse which kills 100,000 pigs a week.

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Beef: forecasts of the 2012 Institute of Livestock

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The Falkland Islands Meat Company (FIMCo) may export up to 30,000 lambs in the coming season compared to 26,000 last year in an abattoir successfully upgraded by local companies, reports the Penguin News in this week’s edition.

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At least 26 farms in the southern German state of Bavaria have been temporarily closed by local authorities due to use of the banned feed additive chloramphenicol.

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While Standard and Poor's were very definite in stripping France of its AAA rating, there are less decisive attempts being made by a few of the Irish meat processors to strip a few cents off the base quotes for steers and heifers.

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THERE is an overall very positive tone to the trade for lambs at factories this week, with improved prices across the country.

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"We'd love to have 50pc more cattle to process." That was the reaction of Dawn Meats founder Dan Browne to the question of who should pay for the expansion of dairy processing infrastructure.

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Waterford Festival of Food 2012

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FRIESIAN bulls in the Teagasc-Dawn Meats 19-month finishing trial at Johnstown Castle were slaughtered in September.

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GM Steel are proud to announce having been granted a large contract by Tata family from Pakistan to design, manufacture, install and start-up their large beef & sheep slaughtering plant.

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The strength of the Irish pig processing giant Rosderra has just been strengthened due to the purchase of the unused pig processing factory in the town of Roscrea, in Tipperary county. The plant was previously known as the Parkmore factory which was owned by pork processor Galtee. Rosderra acquired the plant in the last weeks of 2011.

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For the first two weeks of 2012, Irish pig farmers have advanced to at least 93% of the EU average price — but only because of weakening Continental prices.

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THE weakening euro is providing a welcome boost for food exports, and helping to lift farm incomes, according to IFA chief economist Rowena Dwyer.

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Do not ask Harold Kingston at the IFA, as he believes they all stay in the field.The silly fart (pardon the pun) does not realise that South American cattle stay on grass 52 weeks of the year,and that only grass fed cattle are allowed into the EU.

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Cross-border talks over EU farming subsidies

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‘Stylish, interactive and right bang up to date’ is how website designer Columba O’Hare of Fotacol, Newry describes the just revamped AgriSearch website www.agrisearch.org For AgriSearch project manager Jason Rankin this site update was a vital step forward in making research results of practical value to farmers available 24/7.

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Complying with an EC directive, Charles Crawford, who intends having 375,000 layers by the end of June, has been throwing out the cages and installing new ones.

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Members of the NI Texel Club gathered at Greenmount College this week for their Annual General Meeting. The Chairman Victor Chestnutt was delighted to welcome Club members and friends to the meeting before presenting his report of the year’s events. Victor described 2011 as “the year of Young Breeders” with the reason why becoming apparent as he highlighted the copious events the Club were involved in 2011.

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Local charity Ulster Cancer Foundation is to benefit from the Northern Ireland Farm Toy and Model Show happening on Good Friday 6th April from 2pm – 10 pm and Saturday 7th April from 10.00am to 4.00pm at the Best Western Magherabuoy House Hotel, Portrush.

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It has been announced that on 30 December, Vion Food Group acquired Eastman Gel from Eastman Kodak Company.

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Shearing record broken despite slow start

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New Zealand (NZ) beef exports declined 10% year-on-year during November, to 18,500 tonnes swt (NZ Meat Board) after a slow start to the cattle processing season (beginning October).

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Beef prices rebounded 12 per cent in December, propelled by greater opportunities in the lucrative European market and a consumer shift from steak to burgers.

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A World shearing record which went unchallenged for 16 years has been broken in front of a frenzied crowd of over 150 packed into a King Country woolshed.

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The National Service Quality and Animal Health(SENACSA) reported that the first period of vaccination against the 2012 Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak is to begin throughout the country.

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Beef Named As Biggest Food and Drink Brand in GB

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FOOD SAFETY audit reports of meat plants throughout Scotland, England and Wales have this week been made available to the public, under a new drive for “transparency” in the UK’s hygiene regime.

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THE latest dispute between the Food Standards Agency and the Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers broke out this week following the publication by the FSA of a number of meat plants that gave “cause for concern”.

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THE company at the centre of the “biggest scam in the history of the Scottish fishing industry” has posted a massive leap in profits after a rise in demand for its oily fish boosted margins.

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The threat of cheap red meat imports undercutting prices is reducing as a result of the prevailing economic climate. Latest analysis of global meat trends by Quality Meat Scotland has shown that increasing world demand and currency fluctuations outside Europe, means imports from areas such as South America and Australasia are losing their competitive edge on the price front.

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United Auctions is Scotland's leading livestock auctioneers and procurement specialists. We operate a network of auction marts throughout Scotland including Stirling, Huntly, Lairg, Dalmally, Tiree, Islay, South Uist and an area office and lairage facility at Oban.

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UK - "Leiths and Asda: Extra Special Bone-in Rib of Beef"

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"Leiths and Asda: How to make and serve Beef Carpaccio"

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The Association of Non Stun Abattoirs (ANSA), the industry representative body for non-stun Halal producers in the UK, has congratulated HMC and welcomed news that the UAE government is to begin importing certified Halal products from the UK, giving a welcome boost to the British economy.

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BISOL Group, one of the leading European manufacturers of premium quality photovoltaic modules, completed last year with good financial results and is entering the year 2012 with ambitious plans to double its production output. BISOL is looking forward to another interesting year and begins the year by presenting its solar solutions at the first solar trade fair of the new season, the InterSOLUTION in Belgium, taking place from 12th to 14th of January.

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Questionnaires have gone to producers, processors, vets, retailers, the allied industry and civil servants.

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Combilift’s RT (rough terrain) forklift has been nominated as a finalist in the Innovation category of the Fork Lift Truck Association Awards for Excellence 2012. Launched in 2011, the RT was originally designed in collaboration with Keyo Agricultural Services, one of the UK’s largest providers to the poultry processing sector, and represents a significant step forward in the handling of live poultry.

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An excellent entry of 450 quality in-lamb ewes attracted a large attendance of prospective purchasers and a competitive trade on all breeds and ages at Shrewsbury Auction Centre on Tuesday, January 17.

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Darlington Farmers Auction Mart held their January prize show & sale on Monday 24th January 2012 with an entry of 682 head of cattle, comprising 191 store bulls, 154 store steers 187 store heifers 11 rearing calves and 129 OTM & cast cows.

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Defra has claimed that 17% of all food bought by UK shoppers ends up in the bin. We have been telling readers this for months, while the other meat sites keep claiming there is food shortage.

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A leading lawyer is urging farmers and any business owner trading in animals to keep up to date with the increasing burden of paperwork or risk losing their livelihoods.

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The United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency has started posting on its website the names of meat processors for which is has “cause for concern.”

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GXS Expert Appointed to Executive Committee of European E-Invoicing Solutions Providers Association (EESPA) To promote public dialogue on key issues including legislation, standards and data privacy Sunbury, United Kingdom

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Northern Ireland’s Hannan Meats is supplying gourmet sausages, bacon racks, meat, including burgers, and pork to top restaurants within the Sir John Fitzgerald Group across the North East of England.

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Saffery Champness is reminding landowners, farmers and rural businesses that the new tax penalties for self-assessment returns are now in force for late filing of self-assessment tax returns.

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A test for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) is available to British patients for the first time, according to the NHS National Prion Clinic, part of the University College London Hospitals Trust.

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Top industry experts will give their views on the future of cooling technology and vital business issues at the forthcoming Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Show 2012, which takes place in Hall 19 at the NEC from 13 to 15 March.

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Although at Christmas signs were emerging that supply and demand were in balance as well as a relatively firm DAPP which closed this week almost unchanged at 147.63p, Tulip dropped its contract base price from 146p to 143p and all of the other major players followed suit pulling 3p off their prices apart from a more benign Vion which fell only 2p leaving Cranswick in last place, writes Peter Crichton in his Traffic Lights commentary for 30 December...

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The Danes, as they never tire of telling us, are famously happy. Whenever there's a global wellbeing survey, Denmark sits smugly at its summit while Britain skulks in the gloomy foothills between Estonia and South Korea. There is, though, one area of human behaviour in which we are considerably more evolved than the cheerful Danes, and it is an important one. When it comes to the welfare of the animals which provide food for humans, British farms are incomparably better run than their counterparts on the Continent, and specifically in Denmark.

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It was always going to be a tough December for retailers and this has been exemplified by the poor results announced by HMV and Tesco.

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MORE than 300,000 Australians have found a way to help to feed the world's poorest people - by signing up to play an online game.

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Federal Reserve officials are seriously considering giving the US economy—and especially the housing market—an added jolt with more quantitative easing.

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Modified probiotics, the beneficial bacteria touted for their role in digestive health, may one day decrease the risk of Listeria infection in people with susceptible immune systems, according to the latest Purdue University research.

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In what could prove to be a groundbreaking case for the legal rights of animals, New Yorker Elena Zakharova is suing a pet store because of the chronic pain that her dog, Umka, suffers from as a result of hip and knee problems, which she attributes to the dog's puppy mill origins.

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HealthyWomen, the nation's leading nonprofit health information source for women, and Allrecipes, the world's #1 digital food brand, joined forces to survey home cooks about their healthy eating habits and, in particular, fast food consumption. Findings from the 1,563 persons polled, who were largely female, showed more than 56 percent ate at fast food restaurants at least several times a month. Among those, nearly 15 percent ate fast food two or more times a week. As consumers ponder their New Year's resolutions, cutting back on fast food meals is one way to reduce weight and improve health.

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Burger King Holdings Inc. is testing a delivery service at four locations in Virginia and Maryland, Bloomberg reported on Jan. 12.

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Animal rights activists claim responsibility for setting fire to 14 tractors and several trailers at Harris Ranch in San Joaquin Valley, Calif. according to a statement released Monday.

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Last week, President Barack Obama took the latest step on his road toward an arrogant, new authoritarianism with four illegal appointments that entirely trampled on the Constitution’s requirements. More troubling still, the President chose to shred the Constitution all in the name of serving his Big Labor agenda while killing jobs in the process.

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During 2011, the major US meat import trend was the decline in the amount of beef imported, particularly from Australia where imports were the lowest they have been in more than 40 years, said Laurie Bryant, executive director, Meat Import Council of America Inc., Reston, Va.

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As the MF Global Holdings Inc. bankruptcy proceedings drag on, some customers who had brokerage accounts at the firm are becoming increasingly doubtful that they will get all of their money back.

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Increased export demand for U.S. pork is raising pork profitability and leading to an overall rise in the national hog inventory. This is good news for the National Corn Growers Association. NCGA says this growth will translate into stronger demand for corn and distillers dried grains.

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is scheduled on Jan. 4 to publish proposed regulations to implement the cornerstone of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the National Grain and Feed Assn. found out

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Moo & Oink was offered at auction as a whole and in pieces.

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Caracas, November 1st 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has ordered the immediate nationalisation of the British agricultural company Agroflora - a subsidiary of Britain’s Vestey Group which focuses on the commercial production of beef.

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Three major staff awards were made at the Farmers’ Union of Wales annual business conference (ABC) in Aberystwyth which heard that the union's insurance arm is now the third biggest broker in Wales with gross premium income growing at an average of £160,000 per month during 2011.

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The Farmhouse Breakfast Week function held at the European Parliament by the Farmers’ Union of Wales gave union officials and staff the opportunity to discuss issues of concern relating to the CAP reform and animal health with Welsh MEPs.

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The Farmers' Union of Wales insurance services arm is sponsoring two Ceredigion farmers on an "awesome" bike ride in the Himalayan Mountains next month to raise funds for Wales Air Ambulance.

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The newly-elected chairman of the FUW's animal health committee has urged Welsh farmers to be vigilant following confirmation by the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) of an outbreak of the Schmallenberg Virus (SBV) in the UK for the first time.

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The National Beef Association (NBA) has teamed up with Farming Connect to offer four meetings in Wales next month, all including a presentation from award-winning Northern Irish beef farmer Sam Chesney.

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Rain limited numbers at Dalby and quality was mixed.

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Oil World joined commentators disputing last week's US crop forecasts which sent prices tumbling as it extended the round of downgrades for South America's drought stressed crop.

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NOTHING ventured, nothing gained. That's Bruce and Judy Mackintosh's motto when it comes to running their beef enterprise.

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MANY annual weaner cattle sellers have pocketed a few extra dollars a head despite offering lighter weight calves after the abrupt end to spring.

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HIGH store cattle prices are causing some nervousness among WA lotfeeding ranks.

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Australian beef and veal exports to South East Asia and Greater China reached a record high in 2011, surpassing the previous high from 2010. According to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), Australian exports to the region totalled 141,972 tonnes swt – 7% higher year-on-year and 46% above the five-year average.

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Australian goat meat exports during 2011 totalled 25,892 tonnes swt, falling just 19 tonnes short of the record 2010 volume. In what was a turbulent year for all Australian export markets, the high $A was the main impediment to trade, with shipments slowing towards the end of the year.

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