Meat, Fish & Dairy Processing Industry News
14 January 2015

CHINA - The Chinese government is to ban all imports of US poultry and egg products because of recent cases of highly pathogenic...

DENMARK - Denmark exported almost two per cent more pig meat in the first nine months of 2014 than the year before, despite...
12 January 2015

UK - Last week at the Oxford Farming Conference in the UK, environmental campaigner and author, George Monbiot, launched...
09 January 2015

ANALYSIS - Changing policies on pesticides, animal feeds and welfare are threatening to reduce wheat crops in the UK and...
08 January 2015

UK - Farmers need smarter use of fertiliser and smarter feeding and breeding of ruminant animals in their bid to mitigate...
07 January 2015

UK - Increased productivity in British agriculture is directly related to research and development and to raise productivity...

CHINA - China’s demand for foreign animal protein products shows great growth potential....
06 January 2015

MEXICO - 2014 was an excellent yet atypical year for the Mexican pork industry, writes Carlos A. Peralta (President) and...
31 December 2014

CHINA - Looking at the size of the breakdown of the inventory for October 2014, the information from China Ministry of Agriculture...
30 December 2014

ANALYSIS - Tight global cattle and beef supplies continued in the fourth quarter of 2014, although prices tempered from their...

KAZAKHSTAN - Kazakhstan's live poultry and processing sectors are in urgent need of modernisation and expansion to meet growing...

EU - The European Commission and European food safety officials could take EU-wide measures to control the amount of acrylamide...
29 December 2014

CHINA - Approximately half of the 72.5 million tonnes of food imported China between January and October this year was lost...
23 December 2014

ANALYSIS - New concerns have been raised over potential links between the sheep brain disease scrapie and human forms of...
22 December 2014

EU - Three European countries have called on the European Union to improve further animal welfare for those species where...
19 December 2014

SPAIN & PORTUGAL - Spanish meat processor Campofrio’s packing plant in Burgos caught fire and was totally destroyed on...
18 December 2014

ANALYSIS - A new nation by nation index of animal welfare practices has been launched by World Animal Protection to help...

AUSTRALIA - Australian poultry and egg farmers are experiencing gradual improvements in production and prices, according...
15 December 2014

ANALYSIS - Sustainability means different things to different people, but a world encompassing organisation is looking to...

VIET NAM - Disease and poor pig prices are the major reasons the Vietnamese pig herd is not growing along the lines intended...