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Credit crisis slaughters Brazil packers’ expansions

By Roberto Samora January 29, 2009

“In some cases, slaughterhouses couldn’t support the speed of their expansion, on top of which there may have weighed management problems.” – Marcio Vieira, Pricewaterhouse Coopers The foreign acquisitions, record exports and expansion of slaughtering and processing capacity for beef in the past years is over for Brazilian meat packers. As in many other industries

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

MCEC working to find new opportunities

By Bill Uruski January 15, 2009

Keystone Processors is a step in the right direction, but it will be only a mid-size plant. It’s been another tough year in a series of tough years for the Manitoba cattle industry. There’s no way around that fact. Before the unseasonably high rainfalls hit this summer, producers were already having trouble coping with rising

Beef cattle, Other

Australian beef exports set record in 2008

January 15, 2009

Australian beef exports hit record levels in 2008 as sales to emerging markets such as Russia offset downturns in major markets including Japan and the U. S. Australia exported 957,479 tonnes of beef in 2008, up two per cent on the previous year and surpassing the previous record of 953,932 tonnes set in 2006, industry

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Red meat sectors get new government export initiative

By Ron Friesen January 15, 2009

“We need to negotiate in four or five continents, not just one market at a time.” – Travis Toews, CCA Ottawa is giving Canada’s hog and cattle producers a belated Christmas present by boosting its efforts to expand foreign markets. The government is creating a separate body with a mandate to improve foreign market access

Beef cattle, Livestock Markets

U. S. hogs finish 2008 strong, cattle limp out

By Bob Burgdorfer January 8, 2009

A US$3 jump in some cash hog prices Dec. 31 helped U. S. hog futures close higher for the day and for the year at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, while cattle limped to a year-end finish amid worries sluggish economies here and overseas will hurt demand for beef in 2009. Hog futures were up 6.3

Beef cattle, Other

Mexico clears U. S. meat plants

January 8, 2009

USDA confirmed Dec. 30 that Mexico has approved 20 of 30 suspended U. S. meat plants to resume shipments to that country. The 30 meat plants, which produce beef, pork, and poultry, were suspended from shipping to Mexico the previous week due to sanitary issues like packaging, labelling, and transport conditions, USDA and Mexican officials

Beef cattle, Livestock, Other

New MCPA head wants more emphasis on agriculture

By Ron Friesen January 1, 2009

“If you’re not willing to do something, you can’t complain.” – JOE BOUCHARD, MCPA If Joe Bouchard had his way, agriculture would qualify for a federal bailout package ahead of the auto industry. Like many of his fellow producers, Bouchard believes the federal Conservative government gives agriculture, especially the cattle sector, mere lip service at

Beef cattle, Hogs, News

Britain tightens beef exports from N. Ireland

December 18, 2008

Britain has restricted beef exports coming from farms in Northern Ireland that received contaminated animal feed from Ireland, and confirmed that no pigs were affected, European Union officials said Dec. 10. British authorities had blocked beef shipments from nine pig and cattle farms and were carrying out extra tests to see if any Northern Irish

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Trade touted as cattle industry’s salvation

By Ron Friesen December 18, 2008

“We’ve always made our living in the marketplace.” – brad wildeman, cca Increased trade is the solution to the Canadian cattle industry’s economic woes, Manitoba cattle producers were told last week. The Manitoba Cattle Producers Association annual meet ing heard a rous ing endorsement of global trade and free enterprise as an answer to the

Beef cattle, Hogs, News

Minimal risk seen from Irish pork dioxins

December 18, 2008

Consumers eating average amounts of Irish pork with 10 per cent contamination by cancer-causing dioxins should not have concerns for their health, the EU’s leading food safety agency said Dec. 10. In response to a request by the European Commission, the Italy-based European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said it had examined several exposure scenarios for

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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