TheMeatSite Newsletter - 15 August 2012
Welcome to this week's newsletterEditorial – Meat Companies Face Challenging Times
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We have 5 new features this week: Swedish Reliance on Beef Imports Grows Swedish beef consumption remains strong, having increased by three per cent in 2011, according to Nicolas Ranninger, Nordic Market Manager for Bord Bia – Irish Food Board. Opportunities for Predicting and Manipulating Beef Quality Meat quality is a complex concept and can be defined as the characteristics of meat which satisfy consumers and citizens. Influence of Slaughter Age of Chickens on Meat Quality Based on measures of sustainability and after examining various growing periods of between 35 and 63 days, researchers in France recommend slaughtering chickens of a heavy line at 42 days of age. Predicting Impact of Nutritional Strategies on Carcase Quality Variation is inherent to living systems in the pig sector, but precision pork production can help to control growth and carcase quality. GLOBAL POULTRY TRENDS - Americas Account for 70 Per Cent of World Chicken Exports The Americas is the most important region of the world for exports of fresh/chilled/frozen chicken meat, accounting for some 67 per cent of the global total in 2009, according to Terry Evans in his latest analysis of the world's poultry industry. ![]()
» USDA WASDE - August 2012
» Work on Hi-Tech Fish Testing Lab Begins
» Newsletter Keeps Foodservice Hooked on Seafood » Opportunities for Milk Protein Concentrates » Opportunities for Small Meat and Poultry Processors » Smithfield Foods Issues Integrated Report » Drop in Earnings for Cargill » Evaluating Tenderness, Colour Stability in Meat » Hillshire Brands Reports Drop in Income » CME: Pork, Beef Prices Down Despite Drought » Results Encouraging for US Meat Exports » Hog Outlook: Hog Prices Down » Beef Checkoff Comes under Fire » Beef Production Raised, Liquidation Continues » USDA Purchases $170 Million Meat » New Structure Brings Focus, Flexibility to Checkoff » Cal-Maine Seals Egg Deal with Pilgrim's Pride » Weekly Roberts Market Report » NPPC Thanks Government for Pork Purchase » McDonald's Stores Test Bone-in Chicken Wings » CME: Government Purchases Meat to Stabilise Market
» Russian Dairy Farms Violate Milk Safety Regulations » New Outbreak of ASF in Krasnodar
» Earlier Rains Help AACo » Beef Processor Warns over Carbon Tax » Advancing Australia's Access to the EU » Excellence on Menu at Red Meat Awards » Beef Exports to South Asia Decline in July
» Danish Haddock Now MSC-Certified
» Putting the Sizzle Back in British Bacon » Export Opportunities Exist for Scottish Dairy » Record Consumer Awareness for Pork Campaign » Plea to Stop Declining Livestock Numbers » Quality Standard Beef and Lamb in Spotlight » Casualties are Inevitable, Pork Demand Not Improved » Countrywide Awarded Temperton Fellowship » New Board Member for BPEX
» FAO Food Price Index up Six Per Cent » American Drought Causes Beef Production Imbalance
» Pig Price Increase Welcome but Insufficient
» Namibian Beef Exports Fall
» Zhongpin Continues to Invest in Tough Market » Further Pork Price Rises This Year » Tican Subsidiary Invests in China » Modern Farm Management on CP's Agenda in China
» Govt Improves Food Safety Inspections » Hylife Foods Slaughtering Plant Nears Completion » Canada Reviews Milk Import Requirements » Canada Invests in Cardinal Meat Innovation
» Strike Raises Concerns over Meat Shipments
» Ag Sector Shows Stronger Production Growth
» Marine Stewardship Council to Exhibit at Nor-Fishing
» Agricultural Sector Grows by One Per Cent
» Pork Prices Pushed up by Demand, Scarce Supply
» Fish Production Falls in Pakistan
» 2-Star Salmon Operation In Southern Hemisphere
» Indonesia Considers FMD Zone-Free Imports That's all for this week! Ed. |
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