The EU has published a medium-term Agricultural Outlook for the years up to 2025.The report suggests population and economic growth in developing countries are expected to support higher meat demand and contribute to higher EU meat exports. World meat consumption is expected to increase by 15 per cent between 2015 and 2025, less than in the previous decade, but still equivalent to a year's total meat production in the EU. Thanks to economic recovery and slightly lower prices, overall per capita meat consumption in the EU recovered by a staggering 1.8 kg in 2014. The rise is expected to pick up to 2016, to 67.6 kg (retail weight), before resumption of. Read more...
I have been receiving numerous calls about low sow prices and if there is any relief in sight. My response has been, “You can count on death, taxes, and poor sow prices in December!” Demand and holidays interfere, so in return sow processors cut their kill numbers, writes Alan Bentley, Genesus. I am hearing bids on boars this week of 1 cent and sows around 10 cents per pound. The good news is that market always seems to improve as we head into February and March. Many people charge for marketing advice, but if I could offer some free advice, stockpile your cull sows for 6- 8 weeks and there is a good chance you will double your money, and at these low. Read more...
Over 350 peacocks died on a farm in Hunan province in China, after an outbreak of H5N6 highly pathogenic avian influenza.Another 5433 birds were destroyed to prevent. Read more...
The final sprint before Christmas has begun on the European pig slaughter market. Christmas trade is running at full blast. Extensive quantities are reported on being sold on the meat markets. Yet, although the market is quite brisk, the prices remain on the level already achieved in most of the countries participating. Thus, with its corrected €1.32, Denmark ranks first among the five EU member countries most significant in pig farming. Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands are also following the unchanged German quotation. Great Britain alone corrected its quotation down to €1.55, nonetheless still exceeding the corrected price levels throughout Europe. In. Read more...
Former Deputy Finance Minister and former deputy governor of the Russian Central Bank Sergei Alexashenko speaks about the economic challenges currently facing Russia, including sanctions, crisis management, the need for reform, and the country’s dependence on oil. Sergei Aleksashenko. Source: PhotoXPress RBTH: Recently economic experts have been speaking about a thaw in relations between Russia and the West. Does this mean the situation will now improve? Sergei Aleksashenko:I personally don’t see any rapprochement. There is some limited dialogue on Syria, but the problems in relations are much more profound. And until the Minsk Agreements [on resolving. Read more...
In the past two years, the Russian government has introduced sanctions against a number of countries, including the U.S., Australia, the EU member states, and now Turkey. Why is Moscow restricting imports and how is this embargo affecting Russia itself? Authorities removed 44.8 tons of banned goods from stores in the first half of 2015 and are destroying sanctioned products seized at the border. Source: Ria Novosti/Viktor Tolochko In August 2014, Russia introduced sanctions for the first time in modern history, responding to measures against Moscow undertaken by certain countries because of its role in the Ukrainian crisis. The EU and the U.S. took action. Read more...
There was big news from Genus this week after it announced that it has produced the first ever pigs resistant to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), in collaboration with the University of Missouri, US. Precise gene editingwas used to breed pigs that do not produce a specific protein necessary for the PRRS virus to spread in the animals. The early stage studies conducted by the University demonstrate these PRRS resistant pigs, when exposed to the virus, do not get sick and continue to gain weight normally. Also in the news this past week, the World Trade Organisation (WTO)announced the amountthatCanadaandMexicocan claim from theUSin retaliatory. Read more...
he number of cases of high pathogen avian influenza in the south east of France has risen to 15. The epidemic has now spread from farms near the border with Spain to Limoges, a distance of over 400 kilometres. So far, tens of thousands of ducks, chicken, guinea fowl and other poultry have been culled while 15 non-EU countries have banned either all poultry and poultry products, breeding material from France. The French service for animal health Anses has stressed that the serotypes involved can't infect humans. "The serotypes here are European and very different from the ones in Asia which have mutated to people. Therefore, eating chicken, foie gras. Read more...
New European legislation seeking to better prevent and control animal diseases are set to enter into force in the new year. This has been determined by the Council of Agriculture Ministers in Brussels, after formally approving the new EU Regulation on Transmissible Animal Diseases. One regulation "The animal health sector is particularly pleased to have one regulation dealing solely with transmissible animal diseases, that reflects our current knowledge of animal diseases, and addresses urgent and societal concerns, such as antimicrobial resistance and animal welfare", says Roxane Feller, IFAH-Europe's Secretary General. "For the. Read more...
Reacting to reports of a push from the EU Commission to recommence talks on a Mercosur trade deal, Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) National Livestock Chairman Henry Burns said a Mercosur trade would be extremely damaging for Irish and European agriculture, and especially our important beef trade. Mercosur is a bloc of countries in South America, including Chile, Peru and Colombia among others, which work together to promote trade. Henry Burns said an EU Commission analysis shows that a Mercosur deal would inflict losses of €7.8bn on the agriculture sector and he said the real losses at farm level would be much higher. The IFA Livestock leader said. Read more...
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