The US beef industry is in the midst of one of its largest two-year declines in beef production. This will have significant ramifications for everyone from consumers to cattle producers. Consumers will face higher retail prices than they did in 2023. Beef processors will struggle to make money unless...
Abbreviated slaughter schedules have been prevalent because of last week’s weather burdening packers with power outages and transportation issues. Following two reduced weekly head counts, due to holidays, last week’s estimated 549,000 head total was 17% smaller than the same week a year ago. This week also started below...
Brazilian chicken meat exports – including all products, both fresh and processed – registered a new high in 2023 with over 5 million tonnes sold to 5 continents. The country shipped a total of 5.138 million tonnes of poultry products last year, according to the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA). The...
Irish beef exports to China are to resume as part of measures agreed during a bilateral meeting of senior government figures in Dublin. Li Qiang, China’s second-most powerful man, met Taoiseach Leo Varadkar during a brief diplomatic visit to Ireland. Mr Varadkar said there was a clear desire to...
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed that China has agreed to resume imports of Irish beef. China has accepted Irish science that the BSE case found was atypical. China had suspended imports last November following the discovery of atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, also known as Mad Cow Disease, in a dead cow...
The US beef industry is amid one of its largest two-year declines in beef production that will have significant ramifications for everyone from consumers to cattle producers. Consumers will face higher retail prices than they did in 2023. Beef processors will struggle to make money unless they get a...
Higgins and Varadkar raise Irish concerns about human rights in China during visit by Chinese premier Li Qiang. Irish beef exports to China can resume immediately after the Chinese government confirmed it would reopen its market during the visit to Dublin of premier Li Qiang. The announcement was made...
Meat Industry Ireland (MII), the Ibec sector organisation representing primary beef processing companies, has welcomed the resumption of beef exports to China. The announcement was made yesterday (Wednesday, January 17), following high level discussions between the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar and the Chinese premier Li Qiang in Dublin. Beef shipments to China...
The Japanese government is making changes and transferring powers to different organizations to shift toward a more flexible approach to the novel food sector, including cultivated meat, announces the Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (JACA). As explained by the organization, the responsibilities for novel foods are carried by two separate bodies: the...
Two bills introduced into the Arizona Legislature may signal that the 2024 sessions of those “Laboratories of Democracy” will be something of an “alt-meat” grinder. Arizona State Rep. David Marshall, R-Snowflake, and four co-sponsors have introduced House Bill 2121, prohibiting cell-cultured animal products. HB2121 prohibits anyone in Arizona from...