Argentina continues to stall the approval of beef export permits due to a holiday spike in local prices, with January shipments expected to be down sharply

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Argentine maritime ports received a total of 12,422.5 tonnes of seafood in January this year, 17.5 per cent less than in the first month of 2009 when landings totalled 15,058.8 tonnes

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Citing eight years of drought as the reason behind its decision, Murray Goulburn today announced the closure of its Victorian cheese-making operations at Leitchville

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Research showing that pigs are at risk of contracting the Hendra virus has caused concerns, according to the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA

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The lamb processing industry’s thirst for prime lamb continued at Ballarat’s Tuesday market as buyers maintained pressure following another successful Australia Day lamb marketing campaign

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Experts predict Australia's $13 billion meat industry will be in dire straits until at least next year, following the closures of more meatworks this week. More than 200 abattoir workers are in limbo on Queensland's Darling Downs, after the Leitch Pastoral Group yesterday suspended work at its Killarney and Pittsworth plants pending an announcement about the company's future on Friday.

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THE beef industry trends that Bindaree Beef and its supporters say are evidence that the levy system has failed can be seen in most commodities across most developed countries, MLA economist Peter Weeks says

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Livestock export company Wellard had something to celebrate on Monday after its new vessel, the MV Ocean Swagman, commenced its maiden voyage from Fremantle to Jakarta,

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Widespread rain throughout Central Queensland has caused a spike in three-day sickness, or bovine ephemeral fever, in cattle

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Numbers return Sheep and lamb numbers returned to normal after the public holiday Tuesday last week

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The New Year has seen little change to the difficult conditions being faced by Australian beef exporters throughout 2009, as the high A$, sluggish export demand and returns continued to constrain shipments

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The owners of two meat processing plants near Toowoomba in Southern Queensland have announced they're closing their business for the rest of the week. Permalink The Leitch Pastoral Group has stood down 230 workers at the Killarney abattoir and at a meat processing facility at Pittsworth for the remainder of the week.

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Live exporter and shipping owner Wellard has confirmed its interest in land acquisitions in northern Australia, but says these would not be used for breeding purposes under any significant move into vertically integrated cattle supply. Responding to rumours circulating recently in property circles, the company confirmed that among other prospects, it had examined some of the North Australian grazing land assets currently being offloaded by NT cattleman, Stirling Buntine.

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The Government of Belarus has laid down the rules for allocating tariff quotas for pork import in 2010, reports the Belarusian Telegraph Agency, BelTA

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A number of international shipping lines were reported, in November 2009, to have reached an impasse with Brazil's largest food exporter, Brazil Foods over setting freight rates for 2010

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The Brazilian cattle genetics industry is forecast to maintain its growing pace, with an expected five percentage point increase in the use of artificial insemination (AI) techniques by 2013 (to be used on 12% of the total female cattle herd)

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Brazil is increasing security patrols in its waters to protect its fishing zones in a $17 million boost that includes the addition of more vessels and new electronic monitoring equipment

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Inalca JBS has opened a new production and distribution complex in Moscow with the "MARR Russia" Brand.

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Himfr reports that 2010 pork prices will not experience excessive fluctuations. The average live pig price is RMB 13/kg; pig production in general will be profitable

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China is to enforce anti-dumping duties on US chicken imports, accusing American poultry firms of exporting the meat at unfairly low prices. In just the latest in a series of trade disputes between the two countries, China's Commerce Department said the tariffs will start from 13 February. China launched an investigation into US chicken in September a day after the US put tariffs on Chinese tyres. P

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With no fewer that 14 scientific papers presented at the recent International Poultry Scientific Forum (IPSF) in Atlanta, Danisco believes that it’s drive to become the leader in providing healthy nutrition solutions to the animal production industry is gathering momentum

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The outgoing European Union commissioner for agriculture and rural development bid farewell to farm policy yesterday

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Finishing gilts appear to be more profitable than finishing boars, under current circumstances. German agricultural magazine Top Agrar reported on a trial at the Nettehof, a test farm of the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück, Germany

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More so than most other European nations, swathes of Greek agriculture have changed little for hundreds of years, according to the report Greece Agribusiness Report Q1 2010 from Research and Markets

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In today’s highly competitive market it is crucial to view the performance of an operation instantly and accurately

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Roel van der Zanden announces change of company name to VDZ trading BV.

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Meat and foodprocessing equipment manufacturer Marel has reached an agreement with the Dutch investor Nimbus on the sale of the Food & Dairy Systems division of Stork Food Systems, excluding its operations in Spain

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The latest figures from the CSO show that overall Irish beef production fell by more than 4% to 514,300 tonnes in 2009

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The Food Safety Authority of Ireland’s (FSAI) Food Safety Consultative Council this week hosted an open meeting to discuss the position for and against the merits of buying Irish food

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Tánaiste Mary Coughlan is to introduce a statutory code of practice and a retail Ombudsman has been welcomed by the Irish Farmers Association (IFA

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The IFA President John Bryan met the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment Mary Coughlan T.D. in Dublin to progress IFA proposals for equity in the Food Supply Chain and the introduction of a Statutory Code of Practice & Ombudsman for Supermarkets

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Sushi on-the-Go with Extended Shelf Life - Can you double fresh sushi shelf life in the refrigerator? Hefestus can! The company successfully cracked the code for extending the shelf life of fresh sushi with its breakthrough SLB™ (Shelf Life Booster) technology.

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The halal park in Bukit Minyak, Seberang Prai in Penang, has attracted good response with the first phase, which covers more than 11ha of the 53ha-park, almost all taken up

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Pork was among eleven products listed as price control goods for the Chinese New Year celebration from 10-21 February, Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob announced Wednesday

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The Asda store in Enniskillen this week opened a £4m extension, part of which is a brand new George fashions department

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Minister Michelle Gildernew MP has announced that £259.5million was paid out to local farmers in Single Farm Payments (SFP) during December 2009 and January 2010

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Traders across Fermanagh are keeping their fingers crossed that the marked drop-off in cross-border trade here is only temporary

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As part of DARD's support to farm family members considering investigating a farm diversification project, an Awareness seminar has been arranged for Orchard Acre Farm near Irvinestown, Co. Fermanagh

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Ulster Unionist MLA, Tom Elliott, has said that he is 'deeply concerned' about the funding shortages which will have an impact upon the DARD budget from April

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In 2009 over 36,000 of these animals were trucked in off ROI feeding farms, and this year even more are expected because the factories are struggling to meet regular retail orders due to a persistent decline in NI’s beef herd, and the blocking of a similar volume of live deliveries from GB (Great Britain) since 2008 because of the threat of bluetongue

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A member’s bill raising the penalty for animal cruelty is to be adopted as a Government bill

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Meat & Wool New Zealand Economic Service Director, Rob Davison says the New Zealand dollar appreciated remarkably over 2009, compared with the previous year

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Federated Farmers is backing entrepreneurial farmer, Roger Beattie, in his quest to secure trial approval to supply farmed weka

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Supermarkets have a limited ability to raise the retail price of lamb, a buyer with one of the world's largest retailers says

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Agriculture posted a 0.37 per cent growth in 2009, according to the Bureau of Statistics in the Philippines

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Total numbers of pigs in Poland have grown in 2009 again, the website of the German organisation for swine producers (ISN) reports

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Turning the beef fat into biofuel is one way to tackle an environmental problem, financial and even a public health issue

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Carrefour has failed to find one buyer for all of its three Russian hypermarkets and is likely to sell leasing rights to rivals

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X5 Retail Group, Russia’s largest retailer, plans to start a massive expansion of the vast Russian Siberia over the next 3 years, said recently the head of X5 Lev Khasis

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Inalca JBS, the joint venture of JBS and the Italian food group Gruppo Cremonini have built a new factory in the Moscow region

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JSC "The Seventh Continent, one of Russia’s largest retailers, plans a massive expansion in the domestic market this year

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Saudi Arabia has banned the export of dairy products from the kingdom in a bid to help conserve water

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Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) is of growing importance to Scottish consumers, according to results of a Food Standards Agency (FSA) nation-wide consumer survey

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The Clyde Fishermen’s Association (CFA) has won its three-year battle with the European Commission over an administrative mistake on the number of days that West of Scotland fishing vessels could put to sea in 2007

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The SME-nvironment report by environmental guidance website NetRegs.gov.uk reveals that it is recognition of specific waste regulations, rather than compliance, which is the problem

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One of the leading Spanish supermarket suppliers, Costa Brava provides the UK with pork loins, legs and bellies and next month it will begin selling lower-fat bacon through supermarket own-label and tertiary brands

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Pork had a really great Christmas and sales were surging ahead throughout 2009!

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THE first reading of the draft Animal Health Bill, due to introduce animal welfare cost-sharing by farmers and a new quango called the Animal Health Organisation, has been condemned as another example of Government high-handedness

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The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) and the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organizations (NFFO) are supporting an official complaint by industry body Seafish over a BBC program that portrayed the fishing industry in a damaging and “inaccurate” manner

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The number of shoppers who said they have bought locally produced food in the last month has doubled compared to figures for 2006, according to new consumer research from IGD

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Prime cattle slaughterings reached 2,075,100 in the UK last year,this figure up by 50,000 from 2008

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The three months to December 2009 saw a continuation of the positive trading performance seen in the first half of the year for British pig meat processor, Cranswick

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Bill Mustoe, the recently appointed chairman of First Milk, is stamping his authority on the co-operative, making two major announcements yesterday aimed at encouraging and involving its farmer members

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Good news on the dairy front with reports from National Farmers' Union president Peter Kendall and his dairy board chairman, Gwyn Jones, that their talks with the Co-operative Group about the retailer establishing a dedicated relationship with its dairy suppliers were "extremely productive"

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Dairy Crest said that it achieved a “strong performance” over the last three months, in part due to its investment in key brands, including Cathedral City and Country Life

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The Penang International Halal Hub (PIHH), in collaboration with the Halal Industries Group from the United Kingdom, is organising the Halal Capital Markets Conference in London scheduled from May 24 to May 28

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Harrisons Poultry Limited, reportedly the UK’s leading supplier of high quality Poussin, is continuing to trade, despite going into administration in January

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The National Farmers' Union (NFU) Deputy President Meurig Raymond will present the UK farming community's animal health and welfare priorities at the European Parliament in Brussels when it meets this week

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The National Farmers' Union (NFU) Deputy President Meurig Raymond will present the UK farming community's animal health and welfare priorities at the European Parliament in Brussels when it meets this week

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BPEX is encouraging pig producers to take stock and look forward towards new opportunities for their business at its second national Knowledge Transfer conference

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The hard work has begun for the 11 pig managers on the BPEX Professional Managers Development scheme

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Twenty French journalists, chefs, restaurateurs and food and wine critics were treated to a whistle-stop tour of the south east during the latest Rosbifs Club visit to England

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Aviagen has completed the construction of a new Grand Parent farm with a capacity of 1.5 mln parent stock females each year in Trboušany, near Brno in the Czech Republic

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Building a good solid relationship with meat plants is vital to beef farmers,, this advice comes from the National Beef Association which says processors supplying companies like Morrisons, Waitrose, M&S and The Co-op, are prepared to pay up to 285p a dwkg for commercial, R4L steers and heifers, because they are committed to a British-only sourcing policy and need to pay more to make sure they handle enough cattle

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A new report which looked into the impact of supermarket fridges and freezers on global warming claims that UK supermarkets are slow to switch to more climate-friendly alternatives

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The latest figures for the fourth quarter (Q4) and the year 2009 have just been published by the UK Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

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This began on February 4, will provide retailers with clear guidelines for dealing with suppliers and contains an over-riding principle of fair dealing

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UK packing stations in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2009 was 6.261 million cases

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The organiser of the 2010 Turkey Science and Production Conference has put out the final call for registration for the conference, which takes place in Macclesfield on 11 to 12 March

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USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced $24 million in grants to study animal health, reproduction, breeding, genetics and nutrition

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Hershey Friedman, the new owner of Postville, Iowa-based Agri Star Meat and Poultry, formerly known as Agriprocessors Inc., said he plans to hire 150 workers as the plant expands its poultry production and restarts its beef line, according to The Associated Press

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The American Veal Association has adopted a statement of ethical principles and a code of conduct to articulate the industry's commitment to humane handling, ethical conduct and sustainable production methods

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More than 200 people packed the house at the Center for the Environment facility on the Catawba College campus Thursday for a screening of “Fresh: new thinking about what we’re eating ”

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The Obama Administration’s budget proposal for FY 2011, released yesterday, includes a 20 percent reduction in funding for the Market Access Program (MAP) to $160 million

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USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety Jerold Mande outlined four areas of research that would help improve food safety, in prepared remarks for the dedication ceremony of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida

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Morton's Restaurant Group Inc. this week announced that Christopher Artinian is its new president and CEO, and joins the company's board of directors as well

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Costco Wholesale informed in a brief statement today that Craig Jelinek was appointed to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer by the Board of Directors

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Researchers at Texas A&M University looked at the effect of bismuth citrate, lactose, and organic acid on the development of necrotic enteritis in broilers

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Department of Labor Over 'Donning and Doffing' Time Collection Practices Pilgrim's Pride Corp

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From 2007-2009, the number of ducks slaughtered in the United States Department of Agriculture’s Preliminary Poultry Slaughtered Under Federal Inspection decreased 17 per cent

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Mountaire Farms has switched to recyclable, wax-free boxes for product to reduce the environmental impact

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Tyson Foods Inc. swung to a record fiscal first-quarter profit as margins surged and the meat packer saw strength in its long-troubled chicken operation.

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Clear and consistent advice and guidance must always be readily available to farmers to explain any changes to pre-movement testing and compensation policies

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Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC) has support available for small to medium sized (SMEs) abattoirs and processors in Wales to update procedures, in plant systems and provide training where needed

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