World meat industry news

American chicken is incompatible with European farming

  • 11 Aug 12:12

Chicken has long been a sticking point in Transatlantic trade negotiations. For 2 decades Europe has banned poultry meat from the US on psytosanitary grounds – American chicken is treated with a mild chlorinated spray to reduce bacteria on its surface. Europe has historically argued that food safety should be a ‘farm to fork’ endeavour, and that simply minimising bacterial load by treating chicken at the slaughterhouse was not acceptable. Undercut by cheap imports Faced with the need to develop new trading partners as Britain leaves the European Union, there are fears that domestic production may be undercut by cheap imports from the States, where. Read more...

ASF update: Large farms in Lithuania and Latvia affected

  • 11 Aug 12:10

African Swine Fever is starting to cause problems on larger farms in various countries. Reports about outbreaks in commercial farms in Poland are now followed by infections in larger farms in both Latvia and Lithuania. The Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) reported mid-Julythat an outbreak had been confirmed on a farm holding about 23,500 pigs, calling it ‘the largest ASF outbreak in Lithuania’. The farm is owned by UAB Berzu Kompleksas and is located in Jonava district. The VMVT reported that all pigs in the complex would be killed, and that 3km and 10km protection and surveillance zones have been installed. This incident is said to be. Read more...

Russia: Veterinary control system under scrutiny

  • 10 Aug 10:58

Russia’s veterinary watchdog Rosselhoznadzor reported that some AI infected turkey meat has hit the retail market in several regions. This incident was related to the unprecedented production of infected meat that occurred all over Russia. This could have severe consequences for the country. The food quality control system in Russia was struck hard by a recent incident concerning turkey meat in stores all over the country, which was contaminated with the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. The incident appeared to be Rosselhoznadzor’s biggest failure, while the country’s entire food quality control system also failed. In late. Read more...

Belarus Plans to Launch Poultry Exports to China by Summer 2018

  • 10 Aug 10:57

Belarus intends to start supplying poultry to China by next summer, head of the main department for foreign economic affairs of the Agriculture and Food Ministry Aleksei Bogdanov told the media on 8 August. According toBelTA, Mr Bogdanov said:"We delivered over $2 million worth of dairy products to China in H1 2017, up 72 times from the same period a year prior. Belarus has also been certified for exporting beef to China." In his words, Belarus is working on the organization of poultry supplies to China. "There are plans to certify poultry exports. I think we will fulfill this task by next summer and will then launch them," he remarked. Mr. Read more...

Ukraine pig herd dented by ASF

  • 9 Aug 10:53

Ukraine has lost 11% of its domestic pig population due to African swine fever (ASF) since 2014, when the large-scale epidemic started in the country, Maxim Martynyuk, the country’s acting Agriculture and Food. Read more...

Why foreigners can still line their pockets in Russia

  • 9 Aug 10:51

Every cloud has a silver lining, and it’s no different in Russia - especially if you’re a foreign investor. The crisis, embargos, tense relations with the West...get canny and you can use these negatives to your advantage. Agriculture is one of the sectors experiencing a boom due to sanctions. Source: Vitaliy Timkiv/RIA Novosti For quite some time now, it’s been clear that the economy of any particular country can no longer exist autonomously: Economic partnerships and investment tie countries and continents together providing the basis for international business-alliances. With the sanctions war and general economic downturn in Russia,. Read more...

3 years of embargo in Russia: The winners and losers

  • 8 Aug 11:12

Sanctions may have a negative connotation, but the bans imposed on Russia have actually forced the country to become more self-sufficient. Thanks to governmental subsidies programs for agriculture, investments in the greenhouse business have become increasingly popular among leading Russian businessmen. Source: Reuters Three years ago, Russia imposed an embargo on the import of products from the EU, the U.S., Australia, and a number of other countries in response to Western sanctions. The supply of beef, pork, poultry, fish, cheese, milk, fruit, and vegetables was banned. A few years have passed, but who has won - and who has lost out - following. Read more...

Stepping into China

  • 8 Aug 11:10

One of Russia’s leading agricultural holdings RusAgro has pledged to build several pigs farms in north-east China. It hopes to attract the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) and several other Chinese agricultural firms to the participate in future Russian-Chinese pork trade. Maxim Basov, the CEO of RusAgro, revealed that in addition to a major pig production hub in Primorsky Krai, Russia, the company is also considering construction of some pig farms in China. Currently, he said, RusAgro is choosing the appropriate region for the project, however some investment agreement must be signed with the local authorities and the project will. Read more...

Russia Limits Live Pigs, Pork Imports from Romania

  • 7 Aug 17:02

The Sanitary-Veterinary Authority from Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) announced this Wednesday that starting 2 August, it introduced temporary restrictions regarding live pigs and pork imports from Romania, after the discovery of a virus, according to Itar-TASS. According toBusiness Review,Rosselkhoznadzor says that the products which have these restrictions and will arrive to the Russian border after 2 August will be sent back no matter the date written on the veterinary documents that come with the products. The first African swine pest stokehole in Romania was confirmed by the Animal Health and Diagnosis Institute in a household near Satu Mare, and then it expanded. Read more...

FAO Food Price Index Rises Further in July

  • 4 Aug 10:17

Global food prices rose for the third consecutive month in July, driven mainly by higher cereal, sugar and dairy quotations. FAOreports that theFAO Food Price Index- a monthly trade-weighted index tracking international market prices of five major food commodity groups - averaged 179.1 points in July, its highest value since January 2015, marking a 2.3 per cent increase from June 2017 and 10.2 per cent rise from its level a year earlier. TheFAO Cereal Price Indexwas up 5.1 per cent in July. The Index has been rising consistently over the past three months, supported by firmer wheat and rice quotations. Wheat values rose the most in July, as continued hot and. Read more...