The announcement this month that one of the biggest beef processing plants in Brazil’s Parana state would close, shedding hundreds of jobs, prompted a powerful meat lobby to demand “urgent” measures to support the sector, reported Reuters. In a statement on Tuesday, Sindicarnes-PR, which represents beef and pork companies,...
The value of Mexico’s acquisitions of basic grains and oilseeds abroad closed 2022 with a total of 17.7 billion dollars, an unprecedented annual figure since records exist (1993), this as a consequence of the high international prices of raw materials as a result of the war, since Ukraine is...
In 2022 , beef exports reached a volume of 631,995 tons by product weight and generated income of USD 3,458 million. In relation to 2021, exported volumes increased by 10.9%, while prices were 24% higher in the year-on-year comparison. This was detailed in its monthly report, the Consortium of Argentine Meat Exporters ABC. The...
The Office of Agrarian Studies and Policies (Odepa) published a new edition of the Meat Bulletin, in which it was pointed out that beef exports presented an increase of 46.7% in the period January-November 2022, by mobilizing 22,769 tons. In this way, the value reached by Chilean merchandise of animal origin...
Brazil will gain more access to the Indonesian beef market after the announcement that another 11 processing plants will be able to export to the Asian country. Processing giants such as Marfrig and Minerva are among the licensed Brazilian companies. Brazil’s Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro announced last week that 11 other...
JUST as the Australian beef industry is recovering from drought and is rebuilding its cow herd, the opposite has occurred in the United States. The holiday season just ended brought the best possible gift to many US cow-calf producers – rain. But two years of extensive drought have had...
South Korea imported 256,910 tons of US beef last year, or 54.1 percent of its total veal imports of 474,511 tons, according to the United States Meat Export Federation (USMEF, according to its acronym in English). This proportion constitutes an increase of 2.8 percentage points compared to 2021. The...
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, last month wholesale purchases of pork in that country stood at 64,000 tons, which represented a contraction of almost 50%, attributed to the Covid outbreaks. -19. This happens despite the festivities corresponding to the Chinese New Year ,...
Data for U.S. beef exports are reported in metric tons of product weight by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Quantities are often converted from metric tons to pounds. These quantity data is also often converted from a product-weight basis to a carcass-weight-equivalent (CWE) basis. Data are converted to a...
Two recent events in the last week have shaken the global beef market. On the one hand, Australia, one of the largest exporters of protein, reported the lowest sales results in 19 years. On the other hand, Ireland regained admissibility in China to sell meat after 2 and a half years...