World meat industry news

Donald Trump and China: call to unlock beef market

  • 29 Mar 09:45

US meat bodies have urged US President Donald Trump to secure China President Xi Jinping’s support for a beef deal, with industry talks. Read more...

Market Report Russia March 2017

  • 27 Mar 12:55

Despite lent, when many Russians stop eating meat, the pig price remains good at 105 Roubles ($1.82) per kg live weight. With production cost for good producers around 65 Roubles ($1.12) per kg, profitability remains high. Interestingly, the price of lean meat and fat remains very similar. Producers killing really heavy pigs are very happy! All of the talk within the industry continues to be developing an export market, and of course, the control of ASF, although there have been no recent outbreaks on large commercial farms. The majority of outbreaks over the summer have been linked to domestic pigs and farm workers in contact with them or the meat from infected. Read more...

Farm body wants ‘action’ after Brazil meat scandal

  • 27 Mar 12:53

EU farming body Copa-Cogeca has urged Brussels to enforce stronger action on Brazilian meat imports, following allegations that meat processors bribed government officials to turn a blind eye to. Read more...

Brazil meat scandal: trade hits back after police sting

  • 24 Mar 12:44

After a major investigation showed evidence of rotten meat being consumed in Brazil and exported over the last two years, Brazilian meatpacking industry associations have accused. Read more...

Russia makes breakthrough in meat exports

  • 24 Mar 12:43

Russia exported 173,000 tonnes (t) of meat last year, increasing this figure nearly twofold compared to 2015, according to the country’s Institute of. Read more...

Breeding Herd Reinfection of PRRS Challenges North America

  • 23 Mar 13:23

Thirty years into Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome (PRRS) in North America, the industry is confident it can get PRRSv out of herds predictably, but the challenge continues to be reinfection of the breeding herd, said Dr. Roger Main, director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Iowa State University. Dr. Rodger Main, director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Iowa State University, speaks to ThePigSite's Sarah Mikesell at the North American PRRS Conference in Chicago. Looking at a PRRSv timeline: About 20 years ago the first modified live vaccine that was developed and introduced and is still in use today. About 15 years ago,. Read more...

Russia Hog Market

  • 23 Mar 13:22

Simon Grey, General Manager Russia, CIS, and Europe, writes, "Despite lent, when many Russians stop eating meat, the pig price remains good at 105 Roubles ($1.82) per kg live weight. With production cost for good producers around 65 Roubles ($1.12) per kg, profitability remains high. Interestingly, the price of lean meat and fat remains very similar. Producers killing really heavy pigs are very happy!" All of the talk within the industry continues to be developing an export market, and of course, the control of ASF, although there have been no recent outbreaks on large commercial farms. The majority of outbreaks over the summer have been linked to domestic pigs. Read more...

Russian agribusiness invests to beef up food safety

  • 22 Mar 12:04

Russian agro-industrial organisation Miratorg has invested over RUB75 million ($1.3m) to improve quality control at its. Read more...

Russia’s retail e-commerce market soars 20% to $15.7 billion

  • 22 Mar 12:02

Foreign online retailers account for a third of the Russian market, with China the leading company overall. Experts say Chinese retailers might soon drive Russian companies out of the market if this trend continues. Chinese online retailer Aliexpress became the most popular online store in Russia. Source: Sergei Konkov/TASS Russia’s total retail e-commerce sales reached 920 billion rubles ($15.7 billion) in 2016, up 20 percent from the previous year, according to astudy(in Russian) by the Association of Online Retail Companies (AKIT), which unites the country’s largest e-commerce retailers. AKIT estimates the market will top 1 trillion rubles. Read more...

Rising oversupply and AI worry Russian poultry industry

  • 20 Mar 14:45

By the end of 2016 the poultry industry in Russia was rocked with several huge outbreaks ofavian influenza(AI), which forced manufacturers to cull hundreds of thousands of birds. And a large-scale epidemic is feared, similar to the one that took place in 2006 and that brought huge losses to the poultry industry. However, this time consequences could be much more serious, since AI returned to the country just at breaking point, when the industry stopped its 10-year growth. In late November Russian consulting agency SovEcon issued a report, saying that in the third quarter of 2016 the country’s poultry industry for the first time in a decade showed zero growth.. Read more...