Despite reduced lamb export volumes from New Zealand, the value of Free On Board (FOB) exports exceeded NZ$2bn for only the fourth time in history, in the first nine months of the season.
Despite a looming shortage of cattle, robust global demand for beef has put a positive spin on Meat & Livestock Australia’s (MLA) 2014 mid-year cattle projections.
Genetic investment and its uptake have the potential to add NZ$845m to the New Zealand sheep and beef sector over the next 20 years, according to Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ).
Techniques and technology in sheep production could take a major step forward after scientists announced they had completed the first sequencing of the complete sheep genome.
The three key selling points for meat in Asia are “quality, brand and health”, according to Victoria Santini, head of Asia at the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD).
The high prices of mutton and sheep meat in the Chinese market are attracting fraudsters, with everything from dog and rat being substituted onto unsuspecting consumers.
The international livestock sector needs to engage and collaborate if it is to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its current high levels of 14.5% of total human emissions.
The pace of change in the Chinese meat industry is rapid, with both demand and prices up, and modernisation continuing apace, the president of the China Meat Association told delegates to the World Meat Congress.
Governments need to stop confusing self sufficiency with food security if they want to ensure there is enough food to feed the growing global population, the global meat industry was told.
A combination of improved farming and processing practices could help reduce the problems of lamb browning in the Australian market, a scientific study has revealed.
A recent study published in the Animal Science Journal indicates that the inclusion of astaxanthin (Ax)-rich yeast in the diet of broilers increases meat quality.
China’s pig breeders appear to have had enough of low prices and are moving on to breed sheep. The key agricultural province of Shandong is seeing a shift to sheep this spring, according to reports from the local government.
Chicken, turkey and duck meat growers in New South Wales may soon have the power to collectively bargain with processors, if a new proposal from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) gets the go-ahead.
In 1392 – the Iranian year equivalent to 21 March 2013 to 20 March 2014 – Iran produced 2.15 million tonnes (mt) of poultry, a rise of about 12% year-on-year, according to official statistics. Active support from the state has made this growth possible,...
Red meat sector group the Red Meat Profit Partnership, in New Zealand, has revealed it has now fully established itself as a limited partnership, with a board of directors appointed.
The world’s meat traders were in western China this week for the China International Halal Food and Products Fair, designed to make China a leading halal meat exporter.
Beef and buffalo producers and exporters in India are bracing for additional controls after general election exit polls predicted a victory for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party led by Narendra Modi.
The new Japan-Australia Partnership Agreement (JAEPA), agreed on 8 April, allows unprecedented access to Japanese markets, but it is not necessarily only the Australian meat producers who will profit.
Animal feed giant Cargill Animal Nutrition has completed a US$20m expansion on a feed plant in Vietnam to keep up with rising demand for meat in south-east Asia.
An executive from one of China’s largest poultry processors has vowed to remove over-capacity from the sector, which he claims was as serious as bird flu in inflicting losses on chicken producers here. Oversupply remains a problem greater than the H7N9,...
The Kazakhstani government needs to invest in improving knowledge and infrastructure to allow its meat and agricultural sector to achieve its potential, a report has claimed.
China has announced ambitious plans to expand sheep and cattle breeding in the country’s sparsely populated north-westerly regions in order to meet the country’s growing demand for meat. But adding more cattle numbers in the provinces of Inner Mongolia,...
It is true for nearly every internationally traded commodity, and it is true for New Zealand’s meat. China wants it.. and its appetite is growing fast.
Porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDv) killed around 150,000 young pigs in Taiwan from October last year to this February, causing pork prices to reach a 10-year high in the country.
China is expected to increase its beef imports by 15-20% over the next five years due to domestic production, which, despite governmental investment, is still very limited, according to a Rabobank report.
The value of total lamb exports from New Zealand increased 11% in the first six months of the 2013-14 meat export season, despite a decline in volume, according to the latest data from Beef + New Zealand.
Australian pork producers are successfully moving their sows to group housing as part of a concerted effort to produce "high integrity" pork, according to cooperative research centre Pork CRC.
It’s unconventional as most butcher shops go... but the ‘Kerchin Beef Shop’ outlet on Beijing’s Baijiazhuang lu is a hive of activity on a weekday afternoon.
Chinese meat processing capacity continues to expand apace with the latest announcement of a new 50,000-head beef lot and slaughtering plant in the mid-sized city of Xiangyang in the central province of Hubei.
The organisers of the World Meat Congress in Beijing, China, are to lead a Child Hunger Challenge, in a bid to raise money for child hunger and nutrition projects.
Australian chicken production and consumption is expected to continue its steady growth over the next five years and will account for nearly a third of total meat production in the country by 2019, according to a recent report by the Australian Bureau...
Executive director of the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) Pauline Mooney has been appointed to the board of directors of the CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork (Pork CRC).
