The FAO Food Price Index is a measure of the monthly variation in international prices for a basket of food products. Although the FAO Food Price Index continued to fall in December, it increased markedly from the previous year. More specifically, the FAO Meat Price Index stood at an average of...
AUSTRALIA’S beef exports last calendar year crashed to a 19-year low, as the combination of low slaughter cattle numbers available due to herd rebuilding after drought, weather disruptions and processing labour resource challenges took a heavy toll on performance. Click here to read full note: https://www.beefcentral.com/news/australias-2022-beef-exports-hit-19-year-low/
The opening of Argentine beef represents a high risk for the Mexican meat production chain due to the foot-and-mouth disease problems that country faces, but also unfair competition due to the dumping margin of up to 69 percent compared to that produced in Mexico . , warned fatteners in the country. They explained that in...
November beef exports were below the large year-ago totals, but 2022 export value already set a full-year record of nearly $11 billion. November beef exports totaled 115,777 mt, down 6% from the previous year’s large volume, while export value declined nearly 20% to $846.6 million. However, through the first...
Total trade between Mexico and the United States moderated its growth rate in November 2022 , in addition to losing its position as the main partner that it had achieved in the eleventh month of 2021, according to figures from the Bureau of Census . The figures published by the US office reveal that the...
After a meeting in which the members of the Technical Committee between the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of the Nation and the representatives of the productive sector of the provinces took part, the Government confirmed that the resolution that forced the departure of meat from refrigerators to the outlets...
Relations between China and Australia had been strained since 2018, when Canberra banned Huawei Technologies from its 5G broadband network. The relationship deteriorated further in 2020 after Canberra’s call for an international investigation into the origins of COVID-19, triggering a series of trade retaliations by Beijing on Australian exports....
The Ministry of Economy highlighted that after the implementation of the Opening Agreement against Inflation and High Costs (APECIC) in the country, the basic basket has not exceeded the ceiling that was proposed of 1,039 pesos. In their report on inflation in December, they highlighted that despite the entry into force of the...
Ranchers in Aguascalientes joined the amparo filed on December 8 by the Chihuahua Regional Livestock Union, in order to prohibit the importation of Argentine beef, arguing that it poses a health risk. In the Hidrocálida Regional Livestock Union, they recalled that the purchase of these products had already been suspended in 2001 by...
According to annual closing data from the National Meat Institute (INAC), beef slaughter closed 2022 with a drop of 8.6% compared to 2021, although exports increased in percentage, with China as the main buyer of beef and giblets. This year, the heads reached a number of 2,410,501 , more than 200 thousand heads less than in 2021, which had a...