Friday 24 May 2013
The Foundation Barrera Zoofitosanitaria Patagonia (FUNBAPA) will receive 20 million pesos to invest in animal disease control systems, equipment and checkpoints.
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South American steer price have fallen to their lowest level since early 2013, with seasonal conditions forcing additional cattle to market and placing downwards pressure on prices.
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All businesses wishing to engage in the exchange of reproductive pig material are to be officially registered as brucellosis- and Aujeszky’s disease-free from 31 July.
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Global wheat and feed grain supplies are forecast to reach record levels in 2013-14, according to the United States Department of Agriculture’s latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.
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In its opening World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report for this season, the US Department of Agriculture has forecast global wheat production at 701.1 million tonnes.
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Australian Merino breeders have three updated, producer-driven, profit indexes that recognise the breed’s versatility and new market opportunities.
The new sheep indexes, developed from responses to an Australiawide producer survey, aim to improve sire selection for three different production systems and target markets.
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AS AGRICULTURE Minister Joe Ludwig outlined the federal government's plan for Australian agriculture to the Beef Crisis Summit in Richmond, Queensland, his message was met with scepticism.
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TONIGHT'S federal budget has delivered a new $99.4 million Farm Household Allowance as part of the National Drought Program Reform.
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TRIBUTE has been paid to the Australian beef industry in Melbourne this evening for helping to save millions of lives worldwide.
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AUSTRALIAN Agricultural Company chief executive David Farley says Australia's chances of becoming Asia's food bowl are being jeopardised by political disinterest in agriculture and the dismal state of current trade agreements.
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Total national cattle throughput decreased 18% week-on-week, with the majority of states yarding lower numbers. Cattle supply in Queensland dropped 8%, with Warwick reducing 25% on last week as young cattle dominated the selling pens. Consignments across NSW were 22% lower, with Gunnedah dropping 47%, while Scone declined 41%. However, despite some rainfall at Goulburn, numbers lifted further on last week. Throughput across Victoria was back 34%, as numbers at Wodonga more than halved. Supply at both Killafaddy and across SA was relatively unchanged on last week, while WA’s Muchea improved 43%.
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BRANDING – everybody talks about it, but how do you do it effectively?
The key to Australian Agricultural Company’s (AACo) success, according to general manager marketing Jason Strong, is the overarching message – and underlying AACo brand – presented across the company’s various beef brands.
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A new alliance between two major airlines is tipped to benefit Australian beef exporters.
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Indonesia has had no shortage of scandals in its decade-long fight against endemic corruption, mostly involving middle-aged politicians, suspicious bank accounts, handoffs of briefcases in hotel elevators, or boxes of cash in the trunk of a car in a dark parking garage.
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OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has delivered a stinging attack at the Federal Labor government’s mishandling of the Australian livestock industry and snap live cattle exports suspension on Indonesia almost two years ago.
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MOBS of cattle on the road around Barcaldine at the moment are walking around in some of the best grass they've seen for months.
While a lot drier than it was in April after up to 200mm fell in the region, there is still green showing in the stalk, and cattle are showing the benefit of it.
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THE Queensland government has taken swift action to save starving cattle in the state’s drought stricken communities, as State Parliament passed an emergency grazing amendment to the Nature Conservation Act 1992 last night.
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AUSTRALIA'S largest live cattle exporter and one of the country's biggest landholders, Consolidated Pastoral, has taken a $34 million hit on the value of its property portfolio, tipping total property writedowns for the industry's top cattle companies to more than $100 million in the last few months.
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AMERICAN legislators have introduced new regulations making it illegal to withhold video footage of animal cruelty and thus impede investigations.
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NINE in 10 farmers say they are hurting from a lack of supermarket competition.
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CONTINUED dry conditions have resulted in many Victorian sheep surviving on hand feeding alone.
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The value of Australian lamb export for the first quarter of 2013 totalled a record high $271 million (Australian Bureau of Statistics) – up 9% on the first quarter of 2012 and 20% on the five-year average. The surge in returns was on the back of record first quarter export volumes, underpinned by higher production as increased lambs came to the market as seasonal conditions deteriorated.
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According to recent Australian Bureau of Statistics data, first quarter lamb slaughter reached a new record in 2013, of 5,328,000 head, up 14% on the 2012 March quarter and 13% on the five-year average.
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LIFTING marking percentages in their Merino flock has been one of the major breeding aims for Central Western Queensland woolgrowers Pat and Sue Hegarty, “Colanya”, Longreach.
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QUEENSLAND Liberal MP Warren Entsch is seeking to export 150,000 head of Australian cattle into Papua New Guinea (PNG) using a share of AusAID funding, to help resolve the current emergency cattle feed crisis.
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GLOBAL provider of advanced equipment and systems for the further processing industry, Marel, has launched a new robotic system for Intelligent Portion Loading, or IPL.
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JIM FARRAN manager of Yiddinga, the host property for the 2011 drop of the Elders Balmoral Sire Evaluation Field Day has had a ringside view of the performance of the sires involved in the trial.
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NATIONAL bodies representing the sheep and goat supply chains are calling for the continuation of the current mob based tracing scheme under the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS).
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THE introduction of the new national Ovine Johnes Disease (OJD) management plan has passed its final hurdle.
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The strong demand for organic beef and the quantity of conventional cattle on the market at present has increased the gulf in prices between the two products.
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Target 100 put the industry’s sustainability credentials on the agenda of 2,200 city intellectuals at the TEDx ideas festival held at the Sydney Opera House last week.
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Following the success of beef brands which are underpinned by MSA, lamb is treading the same path.
The Melrose name and the meat industry share a long history which dates back to 17th century Scotland. The family continued in the meat trade since arriving in Australia in 1883. Today, the family operates wholesale business Melrose Meats in Brisbane.
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THE Australian Agricultural Company has sold a 19,404ha (48,000 acre) portion of its Goonoo aggregation at Comet on the Central Highlands.
A statement issued by AACo to the ASX this morning says the land has sold for $23 million.
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The RSPCA has backed an investigation into the deaths of 46 heifers at a state government research station.
The cows were found dead at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry's Swan’s Lagoon property near Ayr earlier this month.
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South Australian-based Thomas Foods International (TFI) - with processing plants located at Murray Bridge and Lobethal in SA, Tamworth NSW and Wallangarra Qld and formerly known as T&R Pastoral - claims the paper-based system doesn't work effectively and, above all, lacks integrity.
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A team of animal health technicians are visiting local animal health offices in the Brazil/Bolivia borders to assess foot and mouth risk, bio-security hazards and protocols.
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In its latest quarterly report, Marfrig reports an increase in net revenue of 28 per cent for the period compared to the same quarter of 2012. The company announced the closure of four poultry plants at Seara Brasil and two Marfrig Beef plants in Argentina as well as a restructuring of the feedlot structure in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
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Brazilian beef exports during April reached their highest volume since 2007, totalling 95,200 tonnes swt – an increase of 37% year-on-year. Underpinning the increase in shipments was a recover in exports to Iran and Egypt, assisted by a decline in export prices. Russia and Hong Kong remained as major destinations.
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JBS SA (JBSS3), the world’s biggest beef producer, is counting on steak-hungry consumers in Japan and other Asian nations to help propel total exports past $10 billion for the first time this year.
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Minerva SA, Brazil’s third-largest beef producer by market value, dropped to a five-month low as Russia’s veterinary and health surveillance service suspended beef imports from one of its plants.
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Cattle producers in Quebec and eastern Canada will see a drop in their carcase disposal and handling costs thanks to the opening of a biomass boiler plant at the Sanimax rendering facility in Lévis.
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Canada plans to develop a list of U.S. products it will target in retaliation for Washington’s country-of-origin labeling law and separately has announced stepped-up food safety protocols for that country’s meat processors.
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Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) has backed new rules and requirements for beef outlined in the Safe Food for Canadians Action Plan which the organisation says will further strengthen Canada’s food safety system.
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Pig producers have been protesting this week about their business losses as pig prices have failed to cover rising feed prices.
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Given the events that will take place in Paris on Sunday, 26th May, 2013, French authorities will close all access to areas around the route of the protesters including to Maison de la Chimie on Sunday , 26th May.
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Reports from Brussels and Ottawa suggest that negotiations between the European Union and Canada over a trade agreement are coming close to finality, with access to beef and dairy products the only stumbling blocks remaining for the discussions.
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A final deal on European farm policy for the next seven years will shortly be decided by European leaders.
Their decision will profoundly effect our environment and the production of the food we eat.
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There has been no let-up in the fodder crisis. Grass growth remains slow as wet and cold conditions dominate. While the immediate problem of feeding stock appears to have eased somewhat in the southeast and on the free-draining soils in the midlands, the situation has reached crisis point for farmers operating on marginal land - stock should be re-housed but, with no forage, options are limited.
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What an eventful half-year it has been for farming. For a sector that was considered a sunset industry in the boom years, it has seldom been out of the headlines since the start of 2013.
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Efforts are intensifying to co-ordinate the importation and distribution of subsidised forage as demand shows no sign of diminishing.
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As the report of the Agri-Food Strategy Board is launched today (Thursday) at Balmoral Show, the anticipated targets for substantial growth of farm output in Northern Ireland come at a time when the short-term prospect is for shrinkage of livestock numbers due to lack of fodder. Reserves have reached a low ebb as many farm businesses are struggling like never before under the cumulative effects of exceptionally difficult weather and unprecedented restrictions on bank borrowing.
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Earlier this week, I was in crops in south Carlow. Most crops appear to be growing okay but some are showing signs of having suffered in recent weeks with tracking obvious. Most crops are growing well and moving rapidly through growth stages.
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Quarantine measures have been imposed in the east of the country following the confirmation of a foot and mouth disease outbreak in the village of Akshoka.
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Mexico has slaughtered 55,000 birds in Puebla due to a reported H7N3 avian flu outbreak in the state, said the Mexican Secretary of Agriculture in a press release.
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Plans to boost the productivity and profitability of the pork sector were unveiled by Agriculture Minister, Enrique Martinez, at the National Pig Agenda meeting last week.
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Beef and sheep meat processors in Northern Ireland aim to grow turnover by 65% to £1.6bn by 2020, according to a recently published Agri-Food Strategy for the region.
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Securing the first ever Aberdeen-Angus championship at the new Balmoral Show location at the Maze, Balmoral Park, was local breeder James Porter, Ballinderry, Lisburn, with the first prize heifer from the two year old heifer class, junior champion and overall female champion Old Glenort Lavender L251.
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The first Asda/ABP BeefLink steak competition of the 2013 show season was won by a steak from a British Blue sired young bull bred by Larne, Co Antrim-based farmer Robin Arnold.
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The European Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos told farm ministers at this week’s Agriculture Council that a political agreement on CAP reform is still “doable” by June, but there is a long road ahead.
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THE Northern Ireland Charolais Club are holding their final spring sale in Dungannon Farmers Mart on Monday 27th May with the show at 10.30am and sale at 1pm sharp sponsored by Irwin’s Feed, Stilloga Mills, Eglish, Dungannon.
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Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Michelle O’Neill has established a taskforce to support farmers affected by the continuing poor weather.
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In an outstanding achievement, Milbrook Gingerspice, brought out by Mr William Smith, Oldcastle, Co Meath, Southern Ireland was crowned Overall Individual Interbeed Supreme Champion for the second year running at the Royal Ulster Show, Belfast.
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Northern Ireland’s farming sector has welcomed the recommendations contained within the report from the Agri-Food Strategy Board, which foresees an industry generating sales of some £7 billion annually by 2020. This represents a 60% increase on current turnover levels.
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Gill Gallagher, UFU policy officer, writes about the latest developments from the UFU Beef and Lamb Committee.
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President Hifikepunye Pohamba last Friday declared a national emergency due to the devastating drought that has already killed 4 000 large and small stock.
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Top shearer David Fagan will be the special guest at the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand's national Golden Fleece competition in Mosgiel this week.
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A top price of $22,000 was shared by two Hereford bulls at the Beef Expo in Feilding last week.
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FARMERS and lifestylers planning to raise calves this season should find plenty to interest them at the Beef+Lamb New Zealand and DairyNZ dairy rearing seminar.
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FARMERS and lifestylers planning to raise calves this season should find plenty to interest them at the Beef+Lamb New Zealand and DairyNZ dairy rearing seminar.
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Federated Farmers says it is hugely relieved meat exports will be allowed back into China after an administrative error led to shipments being left at the border.
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New Zealand cannot explain, at least publicly, what the paperwork problem is with meat exports to free-trade partner China that has stranded consignments of beef and lamb on wharves there for at least a week.
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy stayed strictly on message today, insisting that relations with China are good and that NZ officials are working round the clock to sort out the problem.
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Red tape changes in both China and New Zealand are behind problems with New Zealand’s meat exports to China, according to Prime Minister John Key who says there is nothing sinister about the border hold-ups.
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Farmers truly value the Chinese market for lamb and hope the issue blocking exports will be resolved soon, president and trade spokeman Bruce Wills says.
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A fall in Russia’s tariffs as mandated by its accession to the World Trade Organisation last year have so far failed to come into full effect.
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DAIRY FARMER'S daughter Laura Paterson, of Barbeth Farm, Cumbernauld, has been selected as one of the ten finalists for Miss Scotland 2013
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In NORMAL times, this is the changeover period in the sheep trade, with the supply of hoggs from the previous year drying up and new lambs coming on to the market.
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Increasing customs duties on imported chicken would result in chicken prices rising by between 30 per cent and 50 per cent, Association of Meat Importers and Exporters chief executive David Wolpert warned on Friday (17 May).
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Top price of the day 20,000gns went to Graham Morgan, Cider Mill, Tillington, Herefordshire with the Intermediate Male Champion, Almeley Ginola, a 24 month old black & white son by Drybarrows Cawdale
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Loosebeare Golddust from Messrs EW Quick & Sons, made 5,700gns and topped the British Limousin Cattle Society’s May Bull Sale held at Brecon Livestock Market on Saturday 11th May 2013.
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The results show underlying sales ahead by five per cent excluding a contribution from Kingston Foods, which was acquired on 29 June 2012.
Operating profit before impairment up was up by seven per cent at £50.0 million compared to £46.7 million in 2012.
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When it comes to fresh meat and fish our customers look for the best quality as well as good value. Jim Viggars, who leads our meat buying team, explains some of the changes we're making to drive a step-change in the quality of our steak
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Congratulations to Jim Viggars, Head of Meat Quality and Buying Manager at Asda, who has been awarded Breast Cancer Campaign’s “Employee Fundraiser of the Year” after raising £5 million for breast cancer charities.
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A Rumenco beef cattle feeder, specifically designed to thwart access by badgers to livestock feed supplements, has been given the thumbs up by the South West TB Advisory Farm Advisory Service (SWTBFAS).
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Veterinary Medicines Directorate Grants Provisional Marketing Authorisation to MSD Animal Health For First Vaccine Targeting Schmallenberg Virus
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Butchers around the country are gearing up for a busy bank holiday BBQ weekend, despite weather forecasts ranging from sunshine to snow!
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Dog owners are still not acting responsibly enough to prevent a high number of injuries and deaths to livestock according to the National Sheep Association.
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The forum, which replaces the current Halal Steering Group, will meet twice a year and be open for anyone involved in halal lamb or beef production
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After the wash-outs and mud-baths of the 2012 season, no-one will be watching the long range weather forecasts this summer more anxiously than the organisers of agricultural shows.
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A new British Charolais centre record of 31,000gns was set at Carlisle at the society’s annual spring show and sale on Saturday 11 May, where a strong commercial demand took the average for 93 bulls sold to £5,116.21.
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A BPEX-funded PhD student has won the prestigious President’s Award for a paper presented at the 2013 British Society of Animal Science Annual Meeting.
Vasilis Symeou’s work, at Newcastle University, is about minimising the amount of phosphorous (P) excreted from growing and finishing pigs.
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Although the DAPP continues to break new ground rising by 0.33p to stand at 162.79p, flagging up further significant shortages in the British pigmeat supply chain, prices stood at stand-on on Friday (17 May), writes Peter Crichton.
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In its report for the first quarter of 2013, MHP reports chicken production up 15 per cent compared to the same period last year and it predicts a strong harvest this year, weather and plant health permitting.
MHP S.A. (Mironovskiy Hleboproduct; MHP), one of the leading agro-industrial companies in Ukraine, focusing on the production of poultry and the cultivation of grain, has announced its financial results for the first quarter 2013 ended 31 March 2013.
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Beef trade talks are close to finalising over Uruguayan beef.
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Beef and lamb producers could have been presented with another export opportunity as the rapidly expanding Viet Nam economy opens up to their boneless meat products.
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ANGUS cattle may have taken the world by storm but in Uruguay, Hereford cattle remain the most popular beef breed.
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May is Beef Month and I, for one, am ready. May is the month when people fire up their grills. May is the time when demand for those steaks and burgers snaps out of the winter doldrums with people venturing outside to take advantage of the renewal of spring. For those in agriculture, May also marks the beginning of a new growing season and the prospects of a renewed and hopefully more abundant feed supply. Here at ISU, record numbers of agricultural students will walk across the graduation stage, pack their bags and head off to a new life and career. May is a month of change and a month of new beginnings.
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At first glance, the life of the herd bull looks pretty easy. Work 2-3 months of the year and get the rest of the year for rest and relaxation. However, things aren’t quite that simple. The bull’s year should be thought of as three seasons: 1) Pre-breeding and conditioning for at least 2 months; 2) Breeding season for 2-3 months; and 3) Post breeding recovery for 4-8 months.
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It sprang to life selling patent medicines in post Civil War Atlanta, then grew into the quintessential American corporation selling soft drinks to the world. And so we ask…
What is the secret in Coca-Cola’s secret formula?
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If you want an objective view of energy, ask an economist, who can tell you what to expect to pay at the pump in the coming years, and why, as well as what to expect from medium- and long-term economic growth and what the real drivers will be. These are questions that are crucial to a pending decision by the US government over natural gas exports, and while we know where big oil stands versus its manufacturing rivals—it's the economist who can set things straight.
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Placements in feedlots during April totaled 1.75 million, 15 percent above 2012 and in line with analysts' expectations, which ranged from an increase of about 5 percent to 22 percent above last year's levels.
Net placements in March were 1.68 million head, USDA said Friday.
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OAK BROOK, Ill., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yesterday, McDonald's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.77 per share of common stock payable on June 17, 2013 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 3, 2013.
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Scottsbluff City Council in Nebraska is due to discuss an application by Future Food Energy to build a meat processing plant in the town
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Last week wholesale beef prices hit $208.18 per hundredweight, the fourth record level in two weeks as pent-up demand from a delayed grilling season met concerns about future beef supplies. Analysts contacted by Meatingplace expect more records ahead
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Fans of Oscar Mayer and the brand’s “Grandpa Frank” TV ad character can create, direct and star in their own video commercials as the result of a unique collaboration with a mobile application called Montaj.
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National Hog Farmer has been following the developing story behind the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) multiple disclosures to anti-agriculture activist organizations of thousands of records including the personal information of agriculture producers.
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Monthly broiler meat production needs to increase to at least 30,000 tonnes, Zulia State Minister for Agriculture, Bladimir Labrador has announced.
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