World meat industry news

Over 100 pedigree Irish Herefords depart for Russia

  • 29 May 15:34

A total of100pedigree Irish Hereford heifers, which are in-calf, and one pedigree Hereford bull have departed Ireland for Russia this week. This is thesecond consignmentof pedigree Irish Herefords, destined for Russia, to leave Ireland in the past month. The latest consignment of cattle isset to travel to Shulgino, Volokolamskiy near Moscow in Russia.This group will travel a half an hour further east, bringing them closer to Moscow, than the group which travelled in April. Once again these cattle were shipped through Hubert Maxwell and Co. in Co. Roscommon, according to the Irish Hereford Breed Society. Hubert’s son, Michael, said he was. Read more...

Russia limits poultry trade as bird flu spreads

  • 29 May 14:49

Russia’s veterinary body Rosselkhoznadzor has prohibited poultry exports from six regions, where highly pathogenic avian influenza. Read more...

Turkey Ranks as World's Eighth Largest Poultry Producer

  • 26 May 10:49

Turkey has become the world's eighth largest producer with about 2 million tons of poultry meat production in 2016.A total of 89.5 million tons of poultry meat (except for feet) were produced in the world by the end of 2016 according to data compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations and Turkish Poultry Meat Producers and Breeders Association (BESD-BİR). The US is the largest poultry meat producer with 18.3 million tons, corresponding to 20.4 per cent of world poultry meat production, followed by Brazil with 13.6 million tons, China with 12.7 million tons, European Union with 11 million tons, India with 4.2 million tons, Russia with. Read more...

Dutch poultry hatching firm plots move in Russia

  • 26 May 10:48

Netherlands-based Hendrix Genetics plans to build a complex producing hatching eggs for turkeys in Russia, according to the. Read more...

Europe accepts WTO chicken defeat with China

  • 25 May 11:51

The EU will amend import rules for Chinese chicken after a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute panel sided against the European bloc in a trade quarrel that. Read more...

Russia aims high with organic poultry meat

  • 23 May 12:04

Under the right management, Russia can claim 10-15% of the global market of organic products in coming years, the country’s agricultural minister Alexander Tkachev told an audience during the All-Russian Food Security Forum on April 28. The upcoming reform with the introduction of the country’s first organic standards should spur the export supplies of meat products that already doubled last year to nearly 170,000 metric tonnes with nearly 65% of this amount accounted for by poultry, the minister believes. Organic market forecast to double Tkachev forecasted that the size of the global organic market should double in the next 5 years from the current. Read more...

AI-infected poultry hits grocery shelves in Russia

  • 19 May 09:17

Russia’s veterinary body Rosselkhoznadzor has discovered several batches of turkey infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza. Read more...

China to Open Market to Belarusian Beef

  • 18 May 10:17

China is going to open its market to Belarusian beef, BelTA learned from Alexei Bogdanov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats met with Zhi Shuping, Minister of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China, on 15 May. An agreement on allowing Belarusian beef sales in China was initialed during the meeting. Once several formalities are taken care of, the agreement will be signed as part of the official visit of the Chinese food quality oversight agency head to Minsk on 7-12. Read more...

Ukraine: Pigs in quarantine zone can be slaughtered

  • 17 May 11:00

Pigs from quarantine zones inAfrican Swine Fever-infected areas in Ukraine will be allowed to be sent for slaughter and used for processing and further production of sausages. That was announced in updated veterinary instructions aimed to combat the virus released by Ukraine’s State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service (Gosvetphitosluzba), late April. Old rule: All pigs should be burnt Previously, instructions in place since March 2014 had ordered that all pigs from affected areas should be culled and burnt, while pigs from the surrounding quarantine areas were not allowed to be sold, transported or slaughtered. Boris Kobal, the head of the food. Read more...

Trump Declares War on Environmental Regulations

  • 16 May 10:15

Under the Trump administration, budgets are being cut and regulatory powers curtailed for federal bodies across the board – but none more so than the Environmental Protection Agency. What does this mean for US farmers and producers? Rachel Lane asks whether the idea of a return to the old days of smog and pollution holds any water, mentionsbeefusa.org. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is under pressure from all sides as regulations are reviewed: President Donald Trump has proposed budget cuts the agency's funding by a third and several Republicans have introduced abillinto the House of Representatives to get rid of the agency completely. Read more...