World meat industry news

Low-pathogenic AI strikes Russian Far East

  • 25 May 11:31

Russian veterinary body Rosselkhoznadzor is to cull 239,000 chickens at the Nadezhdinskaya Ptitsa poultry farm in Primorsky Krai, in Russia’s Far East region, following an outbreak of low-pathogenic. Read more...

Ecuador and Belarus to strengthen commercial relations

  • 24 May 09:40

Ecuador and Belarus have committed to strengthen their economic, commercial and also in the area of ​​science, technology and education, in the framework of a visit that the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa made to that country.The diplomat met with her counterpart Vladimir Makei and at the meeting she highlighted "the importance of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations and the progress registered both on the issues of the bilateral agenda and on the international agenda," says a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador. In that sense, both parties reiterated their commitment to strengthen. Read more...

Miratorg wants to produce over 5 thousand tons of pork at its new facility in Kursk

  • 24 May 09:39

Russia's leading pork producer Miratorg has recently announced its plans for 2018 to produce more than 5,000 tons of pork in live weight on a new feedlot site where the company has just launched its operations at the beginning of this year in the Pristenskiy district of the Kursk region. Miratorg is implementing Russia's food security strategy by expanding its pork production capacity to able to fully provide to the domestic market. A key aspect in the implementation of this program, as explained by the Russian company in a statement, is to increase the supply of quality meat products of a wide range to increase its availability among customers. Read more...

Multiple resistance genes found in commercial chickens in China

  • 23 May 09:15

A team of investigators have isolated colistin resistant Escherichia coli from a commercial poultry farm in China. Colistin is an antibiotic of last resort against certain bacteria.In research published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, scientists found that E.coli from the chickens often carried multiple resistant genes, including one copy of the colistin-resistance gene mcr-1 and one copy of the resistance gene, mcr-3. Discovery poses huge human health threat The evidence was found as part of ongoing surveillance by researchers at the Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan University, who collected rectal swabs from randomly selected birds in. Read more...

Domestic pork prices soaring in Ukraine

  • 23 May 09:14

The average retail price for a kg of pork in Ukraine reached 106.28 hryvnia (€3.42) as of early May 2018, up by 7.8% as compared to 1 January 2018 and by 31.2% against 1 May 2017.These figures were estimated by the Ukraine ministry of Economic Development. Not only prices for pork are growing fast in Ukraine, so does the price for beef. The average price for poultry, however, has been falling over the past few months. Faster rise in pork price Retailers indicate that the price for pork in Ukraine may even be growing faster than the government estimates. Alexey Doroshenko, chairman of the Ukraine Retail Suppliers Association, reported on his Facebook page that since. Read more...

Qatar lifts the ban on Russian poultry imports

  • 22 May 10:47

Authorities from Qatar have announced that the temporary ban on the import of poultry products from Russia has been lifted, according to a statement released by the Russian agriculture watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor. Representatives of Rosselkhoznadzor have negotiated with the leadership of the Department of Livestock Resources of the Ministry of Municipalities and the Environment of the State of Qatar on the issue of resuming the supply of poultry products from the territory of the Russian Federation to the State of Qatar. The head of the Veterinary Supervision Directorate for Export-Import Operations, Transport and International Cooperation of Rosselkhoznadzor Artem. Read more...

Poultry trade is finding new routes

  • 21 May 14:32

As the world’s large industrial players are looking anxiously at their Twitter feed for the next demand of US president Trump to renegotiate existing trade agreements or slap on extra tariffs, poultry exporters have even more worries. Of course, the current NAFTA renegotiations could have an impact. Predictably more on US export to Mexico than vice versa, but the real pain comes from other factors. Poultry trade is finding new routes all over the place, or as stated in the words of Rabobank experts; Global poultry trade could face its largest shake-up in decades this year’. Trump is only a minor factor in poultry trade Russia’s. Read more...

A revolution in meat production?

  • 18 May 12:43

Recently one of Europe’s largest poultry producers PHW-Gruppe from Germany formed a strategic partnership with the Israeli clean meat start-up company SuperMeat. Their plan is to produce chicken meat, without growing and slaughtering birds. Simply said, the companies want to extract stem cells from live birds and produce clean meat by growing the cells in ideal lab conditions, forming high-quality chicken cuts. Peter Wesjohann, PHW-Gruppe’s chief executive officer says: “We at PHW have time and again left the beaten path in conducting our business.” Cleaner more protein-rich diet “This approach not only facilitates the. Read more...

Ukrainian beef gets green light for export in Turkey

  • 18 May 12:41

The form of a veterinary certificate for exports of Ukrainian beef to Turkey is currently at the final stages. Ukraine has received the right to export beef to the Turkish market, according to an announcement made by the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection. The decision follows the results of work of the technical mission of the directorate general for protection and control of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of Turkey on assessing state control over beef production, which operated in Ukraine in late April 2018, informsInterfaxagency. Turkish inspectors have audited the system of state control over the production of beef. Read more...

Export development crucial for poultry producers

  • 17 May 09:48

Russian poultry producers are under pressure as product prices have been falling for the third year in a row, due to domestic oversupply. In response the government has adopted a comprehensive and ambitious programme for poultry export development.The country’s poultry industry is now caught in the perfect storm, as farms have to deal with rising prices for feed vitamins, while on the other hand the purchasing price of poultry at the domestic market slumped below Rub 90 (US$ 1.5) per kg. That is the analysis of Sergey Yushin, the chairman of the Russian National Meat Association presented in the in-house publication of the Russian government. The Russian. Read more...