Through August, U.S. pork export value to Mexico climbed 18% to just under $1.5 billion, beef exports were valued at $773.5 million, up 25%. Mexico’s demand for U.S. red meat has been outstanding in 2023, with U.S. pork exports on a record pace and demand for U.S. beef reaching...
As the 2023 calendar year winds down, this is a good time for spring calving herds to look at what it cost them to produce a calf in the past year. What did it cost to run a cow on your operation this year? How do you calculate the...
Between Oct. 18 and Oct. 23, six days after a bearish Cattle on Feed report, the January Feeder Cattle (Figure 1) contract fell 6.5%, from $252.86/cwt to $236.41/cwt, while December live cattle fell 4.4%, from $187.24/cwt to $178.92/cwt. In response to the dramatic drop in futures, this week packers have...
From 13 December 2023, non-assured UK livestock farmers will need to provide a Veterinary Attestation Number (VAN) to enable products of animal origin to be exported to the EU. If your abattoir or processor exports products of animal origin (POAO) to the EU or sells POAO that may be...
A Mexican food company plans to build a $21.3 million warehouse and office complex in an old warehouse district in the Segundo Barrio, one of El Paso’s oldest and poorest neighborhoods. Grupo Bafar, a Chihuahua company that owns the Bafar meat brand, one of Mexico’s top-selling lunch meats, will...
Driving British red meat exports to the United States will come into sharp focus at a major meat industry gathering in Arizona. UK beef, lamb and pork will be promoted to an audience of key industry buyers at the Meat Import Council of America (MICA) conference in Phoenix. The...
Australian red meat exports hit a four-year high in October, rising 5% from September and 39% from October 2022 to reach 177,665 tonnes, the highest monthly figure since September 2019. Beef As slaughter numbers continue to rise, export volumes have been rising alongside them. Beef exports rose 7% from...
IN LINE with growing production momentum over the past two months, Australian beef exports for October reached 105,131 tonnes – their highest monthly level since the end of the drought liquidation cycle in December 2019. Most major export destinations saw rises, headlined by shipments to the United States, which hit...
PARIS, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Mexico reported its first outbreak this season of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Thursday, just a month after Mexico declared it was free of the disease. The outbreak detected in the...
The pork production in Europe continues its steady decline. In the first 7 months of 2023, pork production in the EU-27 countries totalled 11.9 million tonnes. That is 8% less than in the same period last year. This marks the second year in a row of production decline, as...