CANBERRA, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Australian farm industry groups on Monday called on the government to not sign a trade deal with the European Union unless it offered much greater market access for Australian agricultural products. Australia, one of the world’s biggest exporters of farm goods from wheat and...
Drought-stricken West Australian beef producers say they are considering giving away or shooting cattle as a persistent drought and depressed national market ratchet up pressure on operators. Ashley and Debbie Dowden have had just 76 millimetres of rain at their Mount Magnet property so far this year. The couple can not find buyers for their...
Beef production is a huge climate crisis driver, and a new study says only a small percentage of the country does most of the eating. One of the biggest drivers of the climate crisis, accounting for a third of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions, is food production, with meat...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he will visit China in early November to meet President Xi Jinping, making the announcement Sunday hours before he departed for the United States to meet with President Joe Biden. The Chinese visit dates were confirmed a day after Beijing agreed to review...
Key points: Production The USDA’s latest forecasting predicts China’s beef production will grow by 2.7% in 2024 to total 7.7 million tonnes, a historically high level. This is mainly driven by a large live cattle inventory, following a period of expansion of the domestic beef herd. However, the rate...
Australia has said that a group of Middle Eastern countries had extended the maximum shelf life they will accept on imported chilled red meat, making it easier and cheaper for Australia to ship beef and lamb to the region. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – a group comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,...
DENVER — US pork exports in August were steady year-over-year with the help of another tremendous performance in the Mexican market, according to data collected by the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF) from the US Department of Agriculture. Pork export volume in August totaled 226,519 tonnes, steady compared with...
MANILA -The country’s meat imports exceeded the 900-million kilogram mark in the nine months to September even as Filipinos consumed less pork during that period. The volume of imported meat stood at 923.16 million kg from January to September this year, down by 8.6 percent from 1.01 billion kg...
The latest UK beef and lamb import and export data has been released by HMRC for the month of August. We explore the detail. Key points Imports of Australian lamb creep up For the first time this year, monthly quantities of sheep meat imported into the UK were higher...
Brazil is both a massive producer and consumer of beef. Domestic consumption has expanded steadily year on year with slight variations linked to periodic recessions, but most of the recent growth is caused by Brazil’s increasing dominance in global export markets. Most of that growth has occurred within the...