Poor weather conditions and continued high supply resulted in a decrease in the number of lambs slaughtered in Wales during 2012. Figures released by Welsh red meat levy board Hybu Cig Cymru reveal lamb slaughterings dropped by 9% to just under 3.5m in 2012 – this meant total production of lamb dropped by 11% to [...]
Global food and agriculture business Cargill is to close one of its key Texas beef processing plants as US cattle numbers continue to fall, with the national herd at a 60-year low.
UK imports of Brazilian beef doubled during 2012, but trade restrictions mean import levels are still 85% lower than in 2007, said Quality Meat Scotland. Speaking at a recent “EU Imports and CAP” seminar in Bridge of Allan, QMS head of economic services Stuart Ashworth said that since trade restrictions were placed on Brazil in [...]
Livestock producers must try and adhere to rules on cleanliness at slaughter to avoid extra costs, warns EBLEX. If producers fail to send clean, dry stock to slaughter, they run the risk of paying more to satisfy additional controls such as clipping animals pre-slaughter or the abattoir having to run at a reduced kill rate. [...]
The average Welsh suckler beef farmer has only covered two thirds of their production costs in the past year, new figures show. Statistics published in the Wales Farm Income booklet revealed that during the 2011/2012 financial year the top third of farmers managed to cover 96% of their production costs, while the bottom third were [...]
Beef farmers in Scotland started to receive their share of £22m of European funding this week as payments for the 2011 Scottish Beef Calf Scheme began
Beef farmers can be reasonably confident the firm markets that characterised 2011 will continue throughout this year, according to the EBLEX
Global beef and sheep prices are likely to remain firm in 2012 as demand from emerging economies grows against a backdrop of generally tight supplies, according to AHDB
Sheep producers received a bigger share of the retail price for lamb in December 2011, but beef and pig farmers saw little change, according to AHDB’s latest UK Market Survey.
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There are encouraging signs that the national beef supply base is stabilising, according to EBLEX