China has opened its markets to Irish beef exports, ending an 18-year ban that was imposed on Ireland following the outbreak of mad cow disease. The Asian country had banned beef imports from Ireland and other European Union countries and ...
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Verde Farms, a provider of 100% grass-fed and free range beef, has acquired El Raigon Natural Beef’s import division Estancia Beef. The acquisition is a natural next step in expanding Verde Farms' offerings nationwide while ...
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AHDB Beef & Lamb is looking for research and industry collaborators to form a five-year Beef Knowledge Partnership focusing on key areas of beef production. The aim of the £1.5m ($1.8m) project is to devise and implement a programme ...
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Sobeys announced that the beef on its shelves on Prince Edward Island is now primarily supplied by local beef farmers through Atlantic Beef Products' (ABP) Island View Farms brand. Processed at ABP's plant in Albany, P.E.I., Island View ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will be commencing a market study into the Australian cattle and beef industry. The study will examine competition, efficiency, transparency and trading issues in the beef and ...
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US-based agricultural and food company Cargill has announced to cut the use of antibiotics in its US cattle supply by 20%, a move which is likely to impact 1.2 million cattle annually. From now, Cargill plans to reduce the shared-class ...
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Pork prices have jumped around Australia, but a question mark surrounds the course of the latest pork price rise. There is speculation as to whether rise is an opportunistic flow-on by butchers and processors in response to previously ...
Australian business magnate Gina Rinehart has purchased Glencoe Station in New South Wales for $30m, to expand her Wagyu beef operation. The Station, which is a 10,000 hectare property in north of Dubbo, is situated 20km away from the ...
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Beef might be off the Christmas menu for many Australians this year with prices continuing to rise dramatically. Over the past year, Australian domestic beef prices have more than doubled with drought hitting Australian farms hard. Yet, ...
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Cargill is set to invest $111m to transform its ground beef facility in Columbus, Nebraska, to cooked meats facility. This conversion, which will begin in early December this year, will enable the company to produce specific types of ...
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The UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (DEFRA) report has supported the use of new video imaging and infrared technology to estimate fat content and meat quality of carcasses in abattoirs. The technology, launched in ...
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Beef cattle numbers in the U.S. are expected to grow by over 3 million in the next three to five years, and will populate in unprecedented areas of the U.S. in the next four to six years, according to a recent report, “Beef Cow ...
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Year-over-year prices for finished steers remain high, but it looks like in general, cattle futures have peaked for the season, and that's likely to trim gains heading into summer. The cattle business has responded to supply-driven price ...
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Red meat prices already on the rise as farmers restock and Japanese agreement comes in The Australian red meat industry has seen cattle and sheep prices soar, as it welcomes the news that the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement ...
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The US has approved the sale of beef from Ireland for the first time in almost 16 years, a move that comes after easing a ban on European beef imports which have been in place since the BSE crisis in the late 1990s. Ireland is said to ...