Saturday, October 7, 2017

Global poultry sector performs strongly in Q2 - report

The global poultry industry performed relatively strongly in the second quarter, with significant increases in poultry prices due to improved demand and to supply restrictions, according to the latest poultry quarterly report of Rabobank.

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Red, white, pork and blue: Why the United States continues to dominate the world pork market

Brazil may have lower feed costs and Canada a lower dollar but pork requires intelligent farm management as much as it does cheap inputs.

Saturday, September 23, 2017

New World broiler meat exporters: Steady America and a Latin bird shuffle

America maintains its poultry production dominance as one South American exporter knocks off another.

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Global pork export prices continue upward trend in Q2

World pork export prices continued to rise in the second quarter, according to a report.

Saturday, September 9, 2017

US beef rises from the storm

After ten years of crisis involving everything from disease to feed costs and bad weather, America's beef cattle industry is undergoing its first genuine expansion in fifty years. A nasty hurricane will not change this.

Saturday, September 2, 2017

EU pork exports decline 25% in June

The first half of the year ended quite dismally for EU pork exporters as shipments in June were down 25% year-on-year at 158,300 tonnes.

Saturday, August 26, 2017

US pork exports up 12% in first half

US fresh/frozen pork exports during the first half of rose 12% to 879,300 tonnes compared with the same period in 2016.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Last minute rains, USDA optimism hammer feed crop prices

- Heavy pollination period rains break the Midwest's drought, creating a bearish market for corn and most especially, soy. - China's more serious drought will not provide any price support to the world market

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Poultry-driven Indonesian feed and livestock takes off

After a decade of stagnation, the 2010s have seen chicken output triple as Indonesia prepares to take its place as Southeast Asia's leading feed producer.

Saturday, August 5, 2017

Well done! A clean bill of health for Thailand's broiler sector

Seven post bird flu crisis years did not deter Thai integrators from undertaking a risky reinvention of their broiler sector. Thai chicken's productivity, exports, and reputation are reaping the benefits of this far-sighted strategy.

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Poultry meat consumption to overtake pork

Global poultry meat consumption is set to overtake pork, traditionally the world's most consumed animal protein, according to the latest OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook.

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Pigs and chickens, fish and milk: Europe's emerging agribusiness exporting machine

Rebounding farm gate prices, high demand for milk and fatty dairy goods result in a shifting export portfolio.

Saturday, July 15, 2017

US pork, beef exports post strong growths

Rebounding farm gate prices, high demand for milk and fatty dairy goods result in a shifting export portfolio.

Saturday, July 8, 2017

Global dairy outlook brighter, says report

Higher farmgate prices and more favourable weather conditions are providing much-needed relief for the world's dairy farmers after a three-year decline in milk values, according to Rabobank's second-quarter dairy report for this year.

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Export demand props up EU pork market

As prices of poultry products strengthened, sales of feed remained stable, lending support to methionine market.

Saturday, June 24, 2017

European industry experts: EU compound feed production grows by +0.4% in 2016

According to data provided by FEFAC members, compound feed production in the EU-28 in 2016 reached 155.4 million tonnes which is 0.4% more than in 2015.

Saturday, June 17, 2017

'US renegotiation of NAFTA could shake up global pork industry'

A renegotiation of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) by the US has the potential to considerably impact the pig industry worldwide, according to AHDB Pork.

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Germany dislodged as China's biggest pork supplier

Germany had been the largest supplier of fresh and frozen pork to China and was also the second-largest supplier of offal.

Saturday, June 3, 2017

Europe, China and Mexico reinvent the world pork market

Asian and Mexican importers, European exporters challenge North America's market dominance.

Saturday, May 27, 2017

A boom year for America's Mexico-connected swine sector

Good returns, strong demand growth and booming exports –except that all trade growth is happening with Mexico.

Saturday, May 20, 2017

Asia world's fastest-growing market for processed meat and fish

Asia is the world's fastest-growing retail markets for processed meat, poultry and fish, with Indonesia and India playing key roles across these categories, according to global market intelligence agency Mintel.

Saturday, May 13, 2017

Beyond front line trade statistics: Canadian pork comes off another disappointing year

Aggressive export growth to China cannot make up for slack domestic demand, declining shipments to other countries. A strategic rethink and new industry marketing efforts are required

Saturday, May 6, 2017

China's swine sector: Recovery and market liberalization, with new spanners in the works

- A decade of artificially high corn costs and suppressed hog prices is ending but not before poor returns resulted in a mass slaughter of 25% of all sows

Saturday, April 29, 2017

Vietnam: A pork importer in waiting?

- Once rapid 7% annual growth in demand and consumption has levelled off to around 2% - While economic problems held back consumption, low productivity makes for problematic longterm supply fundamentals

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Boxed in by dairy production: New Zealand beef output falls back to earth

After three years of unsustainably high culling, output is returning to its constrained long-term range.

Saturday, April 15, 2017

What ails Chinese agribusiness? Feed output is 50 million tonnes below expectations as meat imports skyrocket

Feed output is 50 million tonnes below expectations as meat imports skyrocket. The wheels have off China's once rapidly expanding agribusiness miracle.

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Another hard stumble for China's beleaguered broiler sector

- A food safety scandal and bird flu outbreak from five years ago has turned into a serious five year depression of China's poultry sector - Since peaking in 2012, output has fallen 20% to levels not seen in 2006

Saturday, April 1, 2017

A battered but changing world dairy market

- Dairy market trade flows are being changed by a variety of factors including EU liberalization, Russia's embargo and Chinese investment in non-traditional Australian and New Zealand dairy lines

Saturday, March 25, 2017

An interrupted happy ending: Russia's broiler sector comes of age

- After the Soviet Union's breakup, broiler output fell by nearly 60% by the late 1990s and imports accounted for nearly 80% of consumption - Import substitution policies caused output to rise almost 1,000%, imports fall 85% over 20 years

Saturday, March 18, 2017

From quantitative to qualitative change: China's feed sector turns a page

- The days of rapid 10%+ growth are long gone. India, Southeast Asian agribusiness have comparable collective populations, and are expanding much faster