The amount of beef in cold storage remains at historically large levels, according to the latest USDA Cold Storage report. David P. Anderson, ag economist for Texas A&M AgriLife Extension service, writes in his “In the Cattle Markets” column for the Livestock Marketing Information Center that the report generated...
Given the official confirmation of a positive BSE case in Brazil and the fact that 35 days elapsed between the time the case was first identified on January 18, 2023 and the date it was confirmed on February 22, 2023, the NCBA asserts that this is an unacceptable delay...
BRASILIA, March 7 (Reuters) – The Brazilian government expects to resume beef exports to China in the next few days and is planning to request a revision of the protocol that triggered the ban after it discovered a case of mad cow disease, a government official said on Tuesday....
Brazil, the world’s largest exporter of beef, described Tuesday as “historic” the decision of the Government of Mexico to open its market to Brazilian beef, since the North American country imports about one million tons of the product per year. The opening was crowned on Monday with the publication of the...
The Government of Mexico announced this Monday sanitary requirements that open the door for the first time to the importation of beef from Brazil , while the Government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador seeks sources of food supply to combat high levels of inflation. “Based on the risk analyzes carried out by...
Faced with the dispute that it is facing with the United States over transgenic corn, which caused the US government yesterday to ask the Ministry of Economy to start formal consultations, Mexico has the odds to lose, warned the Agricultural Markets Consulting Group (GCMA) and the National Agricultural Council...
Miguel Ángel Lacouture Arévalo in his most recent opinion column states that Colombia, due to its geographical location, diverse thermal floors, cattle herd and extensive fertile lands, is a country with an agricultural vocation. For this reason, in recent years there has been a constant growth in livestock exports, live cattle...
There was a solid month-on-month and year-on-year rise in Australian beef exports during February, however volume remains well short of the five-year average for the month of 75,300t. As weekly national slaughter data has shown, processing activity has grown during February, to some of the largest weekly kills seen...
The slaughtering of bovine and buffalo cattle began with better dynamics in 2023 compared to last year, although the improvement is not much. According to the Livestock Slaughter Survey (ESG) of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), in the first 31 days of the year, 260,694 head of cattle and 2,875...
The high temperatures that are forecast for the coming weeks will push up the prices of farm products such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, corn, dairy products, eggs, chicken, beef and pork. The Laboratory of Commerce, Economy and Business (LACEN) assured that with this an increase in the cost of...