Japan’s halal wagyu industry is poised for rapid growth, thanks to demand from an increasing number of Muslim tourists and the opening of new export markets.
India is building its biggest frozen semen station, housing 300 bulls of indigenous breeds of buffalo and cattle, with construction costs estimated at Indian Rupees (INR) 640 million (US$9.7m) in Purnea, Bihar.
Australia’s veterinary industry has reacted to the Government’s decision to modify live animal trading, rather than banning it, by stating that the “nation is sacrificing its moral values”.
Wagyu beef produced from olive-fed cattle on a remote island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea is experiencing exponential demand at home and abroad, thanks to its healthy fats and ‘umami’ (savoury) flavour.
Beef and Lamb New Zealand (B+L NZ) has launched an environment strategy designed to enhance the environmental performance of its sheep and beef sector.
Beef and Lamb New Zealand (B+L NZ) has relaunched its origin brand, designed to enhance the position of New Zealand’s red meat sector on a global scale.
Beef and Lamb New Zealand (B+L NZ) has backed its beef and sheep sector to continue reducing carbon emissions to help support Australian regulatory body’s Productivity Commission environmental target.
Thailand-based Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) has implemented a new global policy across its businesses to fulfil its commitment to improving animal welfare standards.
Expansion in capacity has hurt leading producer of finishing pigs and piglets Chuying Agro-pastoral Group, as the industry remains moored at the low end of the pig price cycle.
World Animal Protection has described the decision by Thailand-based Charoen Pokphand Foods to remove pregnant pigs from cages as a “significant step” in improving pig welfare on farms.
Thai and Chinese officials have marked the reopening of the Chinese market to Thai poultry with 14 containers arriving in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan.
The Australian Meat Industry Council (AMIC) has joined the Sheep Producers Australia (SPA) Board to support a change in the Australian lamb definition that will “put it on a level playing field with competitors”.
A public row has broken out between non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in India and the country’s poultry industry over the vexed issue of the use of antibiotics on Indian farms.
A hotel and farm in Tokyo have teamed up to raise wagyu cattle on superfoods in response to rising demand for low-fat, locally-sourced wagyu amid a shortage of wagyu producers.
A town in northern China has declared itself the ‘Angus Capital of China’ and teamed up with some big corporate names to build an Angus breeding programme from scratch to a 100,000-strong herd within five years.
Worries about food safety and meat traceability have prompted authorities in a key meat production region in eastern China to shut 26 slaughtering facilities, but further issues have arisen about on-site slaughter by restaurateurs – ironically to reassure...
The remaining livestock available for processing in New Zealand for the rest of the season will be less than in any of the previous five seasons, according to a forecast by Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Economic Service (B+LNZ).
High prices for plain cattle at a major livestock mart in northern China have underlined how the shortage of quality and slaughter fit cattle remains acute for local processors.
Major shifts in the power of exporting countries within the meat and livestock sector in the past decade have been identified in new statistical analysis released by the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Japanese wagyu beef exports to Taiwan are set to soar as meat producers tap into demand following the lifting of a 16-year ban on the product, while riding on the tailwind of a Japanese government promotional campaign.
Leading local beef player in Inner Mongolia, the Kerchin Cattle Industry Co, has been targeting this week’s Chinese New Year rush market with two lines of ‘Family Beef’ featuring Australian strip loin steak in easy-to-use packaging.
A beef firm on China’s wealthy east coast has taken delivery of 1,606 cattle shipped live from Australia and plans a total 100,000 head of imports this year.
Drought in New Zealand has precipitated on-farm water shortages, limiting lamb processor Alliance Group’s ability to discharge wastewater to the Makarewa River.
A chilled chicken sample sold by mainland China to Hong Kong has been found to contain the avian influenza (AI) virus, government officials have confirmed.
A trading company in Beijing has been given the green light to commence imports of live Australian cattle for slaughter, with the first shipment due at the end of January, in time for the consumption rush at Chinese New Year.
India has been identifying and registering all livestock breeds in the country, a process that could benefit the local meat industry with increased production and higher-quality meat, GlobalMeatNews has been told.
