According to Bloomberg sources, Toennies' German operations may be up for sale. The news agency said that Klemens Toennis was looking into the sale of Germany's largest meat processing plant and was looking for potential buyers such as Tyson Foods Inc., JBS SA and WH Group Ltd ( China ). If implemented, the decision could turn into a €4 billion ($4.8 billion) deal, the sources said. In 2......
Canada is seeking to change its bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) status from a controlled risk country to a negligible risk country. The change in risk status will allow Canadian cattle and beef to access markets that require products to originate in countries with a negligible TGE risk. Canada's application to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Scientific Commission to change it...
In the first two months of 2021, China 's live cattle imports totaled 78,000 head, with a record 49,565 head in January, according to Beef To China. This figure is twice as high as in the first two months of 2020. In February 2021, mainland China imported varying amounts of live animals from Uruguay, Australia and New Zealand, but not from Chile, one of the main suppliers, from which 12,54......
The growth of domestic pork production is facilitated by a sharp reduction in its imports. According to the Pork Market Analysis in Russia, prepared by BusinesStat in 2021, in 2016-2020, pork production for slaughter in carcass weight in Russia increased by 28.2% and reached 4.3 million tons. Production increased annually. The highest growth rate occurred in 2......
The provision of the livestock industry with compound feed, as well as the dynamics of prices for these products and measures to stabilize them were discussed at a meeting in the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia The event was attended by representatives of industry unions and businesses, as well as heads of regional agricultural authorities, including the Minister of Agriculture and Processing In...
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a law on the ratification of an agreement on the unification of selection work with farm animals in the EAEU. This was announced on Saturday by the press service of the President of the Republic. "The head of state signed the law "On the ratification of an agreement on measures aimed at unifying the selection and breeding work with farm animals ...
Adding 0.5% by weight of algae to cattle feed reduces methane emissions by 82.6%, according to a study by American scientists from the University of California The researchers divided Angus and Hereford bulls into three groups. The first group was given food supplemented with dried and crushed red algae (Asparagopsis taxiformis) in an amount of ......
Average broiler prices in the US market as of March 19, 2021 showed a mixed trend. The average cost of broilers in February 2021 was 82.97 cents/lb (+0.8% mom), with total sales of around 38,765 thousand pounds (+1.4% mom). In regional markets, prices for poultry of all categories also grew. In general, during the week, the US market saw a decrease in the price tag only for birds weighing 2.5 poun...
As of March 19, 2021, the USDA reports that the average cost of pork products in the US market has fallen by $3.81. Over the past week, a sharp drop in prices for a picnic ($8.98), ham ($8.32) and bacon ($8.03). The United States sold 59,600 tons of pork overseas last week. Of these, 28,200 tons were exported to China . Both deliveries were the highest since last September. This is a rather positi...
Cattle prices rose, which was reflected in the cost of Choice meat, which rose $1.38 in a week, as well as the cost of Select beef, which rose in price by $1.84. Choice/Select price leverage settled at $10.04. Livestock slaughter, as well as beef production, declined weekly and yearly. Livestock futures are declining in price. The beef production forecast for the first quarter was lowered from las...
One of the most trending topics in the global agro-industrial complex is pasture grazing of agricultural cattle to improve soil fertility. And this is how British poultry farmers approached this issue Free-range chickens are near-ideal animals for "cultivating" hilly lands, farmers say. Since 2017, the United Kingdom's free-range chicken population has grown by over 14 percent to over 25 million, ...
In February, the research team of two scientific institutions - the Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry. A.E. Favorsky (IRIKh) and Irkutsk State Agrarian University named after I.I. A.A. Yezhevsky (Irkutsk State Agrarian University) - developed nanocomposites to protect liver cells in case of poisoning and hepatitis of a viral and toxic nature. Hepatoprotectors are based on selenium nanoparticles and a...
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a resolution to ease the repayment of preferential investment loans for livestock companies affected by bird flu and African swine fever in 2020. Pig and poultry farms that are restoring production after outbreaks of highly contagious infectious diseases are entitled to extend the repayment period of a preferential investment loan for livestock devel...
From March 17, 2021, the ban on the supply of hatching eggs and day-old chicks produced in hatcheries and breeding poultry farms of 21 companies in the Netherlands has been lifted. We are talking about enterprises located in three Dutch provinces in the east and northeast of the country: Drenthe, Overijssel and Limburg, as far as possible from regions with an unfavorable epizootic situation for hi...
The Philippine Pork Producers Federation (NFHFI) has asked President Rodrigo Duterte not to force purchases of imported meat. In a letter addressed to the head of state, farm owners expressed concern about the decision of the Ministry of Agriculture to increase the minimum volume of pork imports to 4......
Despite the decrease in the cost of grain after the introduction of export duties, the costs of egg producers are increasing, both for feed and other inputs. However, the leading players do not reduce their production volumes. Last year, the largest poultry farms maintained high egg production and even increased it. Thus, the market leader, Volzhanin (Yaroslavl region), produced about 1.5 billion ...
The federal network RusAgroMarket opened its first wholesale distribution center (WDC) in the Novosibirsk Region. The area of the first phase of the project is 103 thousand square meters. m. ORC includes two multi-temperature and freezing terminals, as well as pavilions for wholesale trade and technical facilities. Investments in the project amounted to 8.6 billion rubles. Going forward, the com...
The US and Canadian Departments of Agriculture have signed a protocol to minimize disruption to trade if ASF is detected in feral pigs. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have developed a protocol to ensure that bilateral trade relations are maintained when African swine fever (ASF) is...
World prices by years in this material are considered in two formats: nominal (actual) and real. Nominal or actual prices are actual prices. Real prices - prices where the dollar of the 2010 sample is taken as the basis. That is, real prices remove the effect of inflation / deflation and allow you to compare the real cost of goods for different periods of time. As can be seen in the chart below, n...
Recall that 2020 was characterized by an increase in wholesale prices for cattle and beef in Russia. The prices for meat imported from abroad, including beef, also strengthened. Prices for beef imported to Russia Important! Prices here mean stat. delivery cost per ton. This figure may differ significantly from actual market prices and serves only as an indicator of market trends. The average cost ...
2020 was characterized by an increase in wholesale prices for livestock and beef in Russia. The prices for meat imported from abroad, including beef by-products, also strengthened. The average prices for frozen beef offal imported to the Russian Federation in 2020, according to the calculations of AB-Center, were at levels of 1,814.2 USD/t (in terms of rubles - 13......
African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks continue to be reported around the world. On March 3, pigs with symptoms of ASF were identified on local farms in Chita, Russia , Reuters reported. The containment measures went into effect the next day. Mutagenic strains of ASF in China continue to cause new outbreaks, reducing the country's ability to produce enough pork to meet domestic demand as sow stocks a...
An agro-industrial facility will appear in the Kentau region. According to the information, construction has already begun. Its launch is scheduled for this year. "The cost is 12.8 billion tenge. The project is being implemented with foreign investment," the government agency added. Also, a poultry farm is currently being built in the Mangistau region. Its implementation is estimated at 5 billion ...
The value of the US dollar has fallen substantially over the past year, and CoBank Knowledge Exchange analysts say they expect moderate deflation in 2021. This may or may not be good news, depending on the product. “A weaker dollar usually makes US agricultural products more competitive in the global export market. However, not all commodities are equally affected given the diversity of global exp...
Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Crimean authorities to increase the production of pork and eggs. The corresponding instruction was given during the meeting on the socio-economic development of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol The head of the region, Sergei Aksyonov, reported to the president that the republic is provided with 7......
Vietnam has cloned the endangered Vietnamese pot-bellied pig using an innovative somatic cell cloning method. According to an article published in VN Express International, the Vietnam Institute of Animal Science and the Ministry of Agriculture cloned four baby Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs using somatic cells derived from ear tissue. Pham Cong Thieu, head of the Animal Science Institute, said the "...
Japan's Tochigi Prefecture has confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a poultry farm, and South Korea has reported an outbreak at a poultry farm 147 kilometers south of Seoul. According to reports from Jiji Press and the Korea Herald, Japan and South Korea continue to battle outbreaks of bird flu. A recent outbreak of the virus in Japan in Tochigi Prefecture was found in a p...
The Ministry of Agriculture reported that out of nine projects, two enterprises have already been launched. So, in the North Kazakhstan region, a production facility with a capacity of 20 thousand tons per year was opened for 5 billion tenge. And in East Kazakhstan region, meat production was modernized, in which 65 million tenge was invested. The capacity of the enterprise was expanded by 3 thous...
Agricultural enterprise "Altai meadows" is actively forming the uterine nucleus of cattle with a high genetic potential. In less than four years, the company has multiplied the number of cows and bulls. Today, 500 cows of the Galloway breed are kept at the livestock complex with an area of 4,000 hectares in the Soloneshensky district. The strategic direction of "Altai meadows" is the productio...
LLC "Don Turkey" of the deputy of the Voronezh Regional Duma Alexander Ilyin plans to expand the existing hatchery operating in the Kashirsky district to the production of a full cycle. For 4.2 billion rubles. the company intends to build a second-order breeding reproducer, as well as a slaughterhouse and facilities for deep processing. The authorities of the region expect that the project will co...