Mexico increased its dependence on foreign corn, by increasing the portion of imports in its consumption from 31% in 2016 to 39% in 2022, according to data from the Ministry of Finance and the Agricultural Markets Consulting Group (GCMA). Although the Mexican government has set itself the goal of...
Trade with the Republic of China (Taiwan) is going through a good moment, especially for one of the country’s star products, such as meat, since during the first month of this year 2023 it positioned itself as the third largest buyer of bovine protein. But this Asian market also...
Australian and Chinese trade ministers held their first bilateral meeting in three years Monday as Australia urges China to lift official and unofficial barriers that are costing exporters 20 billion Australian dollars (US$14 billion) a year. China has thawed its diplomatic freeze on Australia since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s...
According to INAC data, in the first 4 weeks of 2023, the slaughter of cattle in the country has been reduced by 30.1%, amounting to 134,693 heads. The main production centers have been Frigorífico Las Piedras with 4,178 heads and Breeders & Packers Uruguay (BPU, now owned by Minerva...
Algeria is in desperate need of Colombian meat for the Ramadan season and that would speed up the export process, said Augusto Beltrán Segrera, technical secretary of the Stabilization Fund for the Promotion of the Export of meat, milk and its derivatives (FEP) . The idea is that this country could...
Australian beef exports are off to a slow start, with just 51,471 tonnes of chilled and frozen beef shipped for January, Department of Agriculture records show. Historically, January is the slowest month each year for overseas beef trade, as many large export processing plants are closed for the Christmas/New...
According to the USDA, the US cattle census continues to decline and lower calf production is expected in the coming months due to drought in the main feed grain-producing areas. The bovine census on January 1, 2023 was 89.27 million animals, 3% less than in 2022. The 3% drop...
At the beginning of this month, the presence of beef from Nicaragua that is sold in Sonora , an entity that is among the top ten nationally in the production of this food, was denounced on social networks ; Despite this, it is estimated that 70% of the meat of this animal...
In the past two years, US beef exports to China/Hong Kong increased from just over 20,000t to 263,000t by the end of November 2022. US trade with China had increased frustrated before 202 due to sanctions and retaliatory measures during the Trump presidency. a partial solution was found and...
The effect of last year´s cow cull caused by widespread drought in the US was quiantified in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) cattle inventory report released this week. It shows that the totaal US heard has dipped below 90m, down 3% to 89.3m head at 1 January...