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2127	AHDB to launch a pig building survey	An in-depth survey of pig buildings has been commissioned by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.	<p>AHDB has engaged BMG Research to conduct an in-depth survey of pig buildings. This will help the organisation gain insight into what pig housing is currently in use and what the future needs of the industry might be, so they can support producers accordingly.</p> <p>The results will be discussed with Defra and other key stakeholders, to inform future policies and activities, which are currently based on historic data.</p> <p>As part of this market research, producers’ attitudes to investment and decision making will also be explored.</p> <p>Nigel Penlington, Head of Environment and Buildings at AHDB, said: “Buildings are key to productivity, health, welfare and, ultimately, the success of the industry. To deliver this, we need buildings to be updated and replaced at a steady rate.<br />“Our knowledge of the types and ages of buildings in use is poor, as is our understanding of what is driving investment and what the barriers to investment might be.”</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-01 06:39:09	2025-08-12 00:47:59	Details Edit Delete
2128	Romania reports another ASF case	Romanian authorities have recently reported a new case of African swine fever.	<p>The disease was also confirmed in the Comanicea village, Dolj County, the National Veterinary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) announced on Tuesday, according to Mediafax. This is the 15th county where the disease has been reported.</p> <p>The authorities have implemented a protection zone within a radius of 3 kilometers and a surveillance zone was established within a radius of 10 kilometers around the outbreak.</p> <p>Until now, no other cases of the disease have been reported in households or in commercial farms from the county.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-01 06:59:44	2025-08-12 06:31:16	Details Edit Delete
2129	Sibiu Salami, one of Romania's famous brands celebrates 130 years		<p>On 1st of November, Salam de Sibiu PGI (Sibiu Salami), one of Romania's notorious food brands celebrates 130 years since the product was created. Present at Indagra Food Show in Bucharest, Carmen Gavrilescu, president of the Association of Producers of Sibiu Salami, declared that the premium product if finding new markets and it could grow spectacularly if exported to Asia.<br />"This year we opened the markets in Spain and Italy. Of course, we think that Romanian expats in those countries will increase the sales, but there is also an interest from Europeans who find delicious our most renowned salami. Last year, we closed with a production of 2,100 tonnes. This year, we expect to grow at 2,400 tonnes of salami and 5% is the increase in exports.<br />Chinese and Japanese visitors of our booths in Spain and Italy also manifested interest in our product. If we can open those markets we can expect a consistent growth in production", declared Mrs Gavrilescu in an interview for EuroMeatNews.</p> <p><img src="/files/pictures/article/DSC_0193.JPG?1541076597738" alt="DSC_0193" width="600" height="600" /></p> <p><br />Responding to new consumer habits, the Association presented a culinary demonstration of how can Sibiu Salami can be used in different recipes, aside from the basic sandwich snack.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-01 14:52:23	2025-08-12 15:42:15	Details Edit Delete
2130	VIDEO: "We should not have any problem with ASF"		<p>With 25 farms and a production of about 75,000 pigs per year, Iberico Vallehermoso is one the important producers of Iberico pig in Spain. 25% of that production is directed to export in forms of pork products as the company's business model is one that is almost completely integrated.<br />"There are different trends in different markets. Right now, South Korea is one of our best markets but we export to other Asian markets as well. The trends are different from the ones that we see in Europe our in North America. They like to cook the meat in Asia so we sell mostly fresh or frozen pork", declared Mickael Lourenco in an interview for EuroMeatNews.</p> <p><br />The ASF reported in wild boars in Belgium has put the Spanish pork industry in a state of alert as the country had a tough experience with the virus during the '80s and the '90's'.<br />"We are trying to not mix our porks with other coming from other farms. We also make sure that every truck coming from other countries is washed and clean and disinfected. You have to be sure that all the drivers coming into the farms do respect the regulation of biosecurity prevention", added the Export Manager of Iberico Vallehermoso. Done by yourself is one of the motto's in the company and, in this case, is also a biosecurity measure, according to Mr Lourenco.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-01 15:19:57	2025-08-12 06:38:31	Details Edit Delete
2879	VIDEO: "Brexit is not going to affect us too much!"		<p>The food technology sector is not to be affected too much in the event of Brexit, considers Gordon Davis, Sales Director, DanTech. "We have markets from the United States to China. Brexit is not going to affect us too much", he said in an interview for EuroMeatNews.</p> <p><br />The company was present at IFFA 2019, in Frankfurt, showcasing its latest forming machine for meat products. Nevertheless, Mr Davis believes that leaving the EU is going to slow down the innovating process in the sector.</p>	1		Industry		2019-05-13 07:01:03	2025-08-12 02:35:19	Details Edit Delete
2131	US Foods to build a new distribution center with a meat-cutting facility	Foodservice distributor US Foods plans to invest $71.6 million in a new distribution center in McClellan, California, which will include a meat-cutting facility.	<p>The new center will expand on a surface of 355,000 square-foot and will house thousands of foodservice products as well as a meat cutting facility and fleet maintenance operations.</p> <p>This new investment will allow the company to better service its independent restaurant customers from Northern California. The construction of the new unit is expected to start mid-2019 and open at the end of 2020.</p> <p>Barry Broome, president and CEO of the Greater Sacramento Economic Council, said, "The US Foods expansion is a big win for the entire region. The new facility is projected to drive more than $59 million in direct and indirect economic impact from the job growth alone."</p> <p>“The expansion of the US Foods footprint into Sacramento is an important investment as we continue to serve independent restaurant operators across the region,” said Bernie Orsini, area president for Northern California, US Foods. “We look forward to the increased capabilities the location will offer as we continue to execute on our ‘Great Food. Made Easy.’ strategy.”</p> <p>US Foods has 25,000 employees and more than 60 locations. The company is headquartered in Rosemont and reports an annual revenue amounting to approximatively $24 billion.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-02 07:09:04	2025-08-12 11:16:03	Details Edit Delete
2132	Poland to become EU's leading turkey producer	Poland could have the largest turkey production in the European Union by 2020.	<p>The country occupies the second position in the top EU turkey producers after Germany, which was the only country to report higher industrial slaughter rates, Meatinfo.ru reports.</p> <p>Poland has overtaken France in the production of turkey meat. Between 2015 and 2016 the country became one of the three leading turkey producers in the EU. In 2017, its production decreased slightly because of the avian influenza virus.</p> <p>"If we assume that the growth rate will be as high as in recent years, we can become the largest producer of turkey meat in Europe, overtaking Germany," the director of the National Chamber of Poultry Breeding said.</p> <p>In the first four months of this year, Germany produced 162,000 tons of turkey meat. Poland is the second (128,000 tons) producer in the EU, followed by France (113,000 tons), Italy (97,000 tons), Spain (76,000 tons) and the United Kingdom (57,000 tons).</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-02 06:21:30	2025-08-12 02:08:46	Details Edit Delete
2135	Tighter control measures for Bulgarian poultry farms	The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) has recently announced that it will tighten control over poultry farms across the country due to the latest cases of bird flu reported.	<p>The Bulgarian authorities are implementing a new programme for enhanced surveillance of poultry farms as a reaction to the latest cases of avian influenza that appeared in the country, Nova reports.</p> <p>The measures include biosecurity on farms, a higher frequency of laboratory control to demonstrate the lack of investion with the virus and prevention across the country.</p> <p>The agency announced also that birds will only be transported after they have been tested for the disease.</p> <p>Earlier this week, BFSA reported new outbreaks of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) in two poultry farms in the village of Varbitsa, Dimitrovgrad municipality, Haskovo district and in the village of Bogdanitsa, Sadovo municipality, Plovdiv region.</p> <p>The Bulgarian authorities are taking all the precautionary measures to limit and prevent the spread of the virus to other poultry farms. A 3-kilometer protection zone and another 10-kilometer surveillance zone have been implemented around the outbreak areas. The movement of birds and their products into and out of the protection and surveillance zones is prohibited.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-02 12:00:43	2025-08-12 11:25:20	Details Edit Delete
2136	Cargill expands its traceability turkey program	Cargill is expanding the traceability of its Honeysuckle White brand of turkey through blockchain technology and will include 200,000 birds this year from more than 70 farms with the occasion of the Thanksgiving celebration.	<p>Through a simple text or by entering an on-package code at HoneysuckleWhite.com, consumers can trace their turkey back to the family farm, access the farm’s location by state and county, view the family farm story, see photos from the farm and read a message from the farmer.</p> <p>“Honeysuckle White is committed to food transparency and we are excited to bring more consumers an inside look at the family farms where their turkeys are raised,” said Kassie Long, Honeysuckle White brand manager. "We launched this program as a pilot in 2017 and are expanding it this year to meet the increased consumer demand for farm to fork transparency. Now, more consumers can get to know the farmers that raised their turkeys and enjoy a family-farm raised turkey this holiday season.”</p> <p>Last year’s successful pilot program was the first time a blockchain solution was used by a major turkey brand. The program expanded from 60,000 turkeys in 2017 to 200,000 birds this year.</p> <p>Cargill announced that one-third of all 2018 Honeysuckle White fresh turkeys will be traceable, an increase from 5 percent last year. The turkeys will be available in 3,500 retail stores across the Midwest and several other markets around the U.S., including Denver, Nashville and Seattle. Honeysuckle White traceable turkeys are also available, in a limited quantity, on Amazon.com.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-02 12:14:49	2025-08-12 15:26:08	Details Edit Delete
2137	Third Vion slaughterhouse to produce beef with animal welfare label		<p>Starting with August this year, Waldkraiburg and Buchloe in Bavaria are the first German slaughterhouses to bring beef products from dairy cows with the animal welfare label “Für Mehr Tierschutz” onto the market.</p> <p>The company has announced that it has already closed 45 purchase deals with farmers in the south of Germany. At the start in Bad Bramstedt, 20 farmers from northern Germany have already committed to deliver their animal welfare label cows to Vion.</p> <p>The company is in negotiations with other farmers, who are certified according to the criteria of the German Animal Welfare Association for dairy cows. The farmers receive a price supplement of 40 cents per kilogram carcase weight in the entry level of the animal welfare label, supplements in the premium level are even higher.</p> <p>“The cows come from controlled farms that already supply their milk with the animal welfare label to dairies. First of all, we are focusing on the marketing of minced meat and prime cuts," said Paul Daum, Head of Strategic Purchase Livestock.</p> <p>The animal welfare label “Für Mehr Tierschutz” identifies beef products that are based on animal welfare standards that exceed the legal requirements; implying mandatory requirements for livestock farming, transport and slaughter of dairy cows, which are controlled and certified by independent certification bodies.</p> <p>The requirements include, among others, a transport time of a maximum of four hours and the collection of animal-related criteria at the slaughterhouses. These results are regularly reported to the German Animal Welfare Association and the certified farmers.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-03 07:06:07	2025-08-12 11:58:21	Details Edit Delete
2140	OIE calls for prudent antibiotics use in animals	Prevention of AMR in farming is critical to human health, food safety, food security, animal health and animal welfare, warns the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).	<p>More than 500 people from the OIE’s 182 member countries attended to OIE's second Global Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Prudent Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Animals in Morocco, including those from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Bank, and the United Nations Interagency Coordination Group on AMR.<br />Antimicrobials are used around the world to control and treat infections in animals and humans, but their overuse and misuse put their efficacy at risk. Unprecedented movements of people, animals, goods and food worldwide, enable resistant pathogens to populate the planet with ease.<br />The agenda of the conference was focused on topics such as the need for cross-sector, national level coordination through national action plans to prevent the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance, informs Drovers magazine.<br />“It is only by promoting the responsible and prudent use of antimicrobials that their efficacy can be safeguarded, ensuring that essential medicines that protect both human and animal health can continue to be used,” said Dr Monique Eloit, Director General of OIE. “We have made important progress in this mission today. International Standards on prudent use already exist. We now need to put them into practice at a national level to tackle AMR. For this, international collaboration is essential. By working together, countries can discuss challenges, share best practice and make global improvements.”</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-04 08:00:35	2025-08-12 01:58:09	Details Edit Delete
2141	Sealed Air to make all of its packaging 100% reusable or recyclable	Sealed Air plans to design and advance their innovative packaging solutions to be 100% recyclable or reusable by 2025.	<p>The company will accelerate its use of recycled materials, expand reuse models for packaging and lead the collaboration with partners worldwide to ensure execution.</p> <p>“At Sealed Air, we strive to leave our world, environment and communities better than we found them by leading innovative efforts to create differentiated, sustainable solutions,” said Ted Doheny, Sealed Air President and CEO. “Our history of sustainability is strengthened through our new sustainability and plastics pledge and, as an industry leader, it’s our responsibility to build a waste-free future, keep our oceans clean and leave a lighter carbon footprint.”</p> <p>Sealed Air pledges to accelerate efforts within their operations, its customers’ operations and, ultimately, the consumer, and will:</p> <p>Invest in Innovation: Design and advance packaging solutions to be 100% recyclable or reusable<br />Eliminate Plastic Waste: Achieve an ambitious target of 50% average recycled content across all packaging solutions of which 60% is post-consumer recycled content<br />Collaborate for Change: Lead collaborations with partners worldwide to increase recycling and reuse rates</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-05 08:38:06	2025-08-10 19:41:35	Details Edit Delete
2142	The National Chicken Council appoints new chairman		<p>Kaminsky started his career at Arthur Andersen after receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting at DePaul University. He began his career with Koch Foods in 1990 on the financial side of the business but learned the operational side, including live processing through Koch’s move to become a vertically integrated poultry company in 1996.</p> <p>He has assisted in Koch’s growth from a one-plant operation to one of the leading poultry companies in the United States, through acquisitions, green field site developments and internal expansion.</p> <p>Serving as vice chairman for 2018-2019 is Clint Rivers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Wayne Farms LLC (Oakwood, Georgia). Rivers joined Wayne Farms in October 2012 as Vice President and General Manager of the Fresh Business Unit. In 2014, he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer, and, in 2017, promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Wayne Farms, Rivers served as President of Foodservice and Supply Chain with Perdue Farms. In addition to the six years he spent with Perdue Farms, he worked 21 years with Pilgrim’s Pride where he held positions of increasing responsibility including the positions of Chief Operating Officer, and President and CEO. Rivers first began his career in the industry with Golden West Foods in Bedford, Virginia as a Quality Assurance Foreman. He holds a degree in Animal Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.</p> <p>New to the officer corps, Trent Goins, president and CEO of O.K. Foods (Fort Smith, Arkansas), takes over as NCC Secretary-Treasurer. Over the past 15 years, Goins has held various positions within the company including VP of Sales and Marketing and Regional Sales Manager. He is currently the chair of the Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce, serves as a lifetime member of The Poultry Federation and currently serves as Vice President of 64.6 Downtown, a non-profit, and is the co-founder of the Peacemaker Music Festival and The Outlier Music Series. Preceding his tenure at O.K. Foods, Goins worked as a Legislative Assistant on Agriculture and Trade Policy for Congressman Marion Berry of Arkansas’ first Congressional district.</p> <p>Officers serve one-year terms.</p> <p>In addition to the three new officers, Mike Brown, of Vienna, Virginia, was elected to a sixth term as president of NCC.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-05 09:48:11	2025-08-12 13:01:55	Details Edit Delete
2143	El Pozo announced two new products in its Artisan Family range	The premium range sliced products of the Spanish company was completed with Turkey with Truffle and Boletus and the Westfalia Roasted Ham.	<p>El Pozo Artisan Family has launched two new products, Turkey with Truffle and Boletus and the Westfalia Roasted Ham, that are responding to the requirements of the consumer in the matter of health and quality.<br />Made without starch, without lactose and without dyes, they seek to respond to the needs of consumers who demand nutritious and quality products with characteristics of naturalness and freshness, informs CdeComunicacion website.<br />The Westfalia Roasted Ham is made with 92% Duroc Cruce meat and stands out for being smoked with natural woods.<br />For its part, Turkey with Truffle and Boletus offers pieces of breast and turkey drumsticks. In this case, its special aroma is that of the natural truffle and baked boletus on the edge of the slice.</p> <p>(Photo source: reasonwhy. es)</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-05 14:24:51	2025-08-10 22:18:59	Details Edit Delete
2145	EVFTA to cut by half most of the taxes on Vietnamese seafood exports in the EU	The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) will move to the European Parliament for ratification early next year.	<p>Vietnam exporters of seafood are expecting with interest the development in the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) negotiations. After being submitted to the European Council, the draft will be sent to be ratified by the European Parliament early in 2019, according to official Vietnamese sources, quoted by Seafood Source magazine.<br />Once the deal comes into effect, about half of the import taxes on seafood products from Vietnam to E.U. will be removed immediately after the agreement comes into effect, with the remainder eliminated within seven years from the effective date of the pact. <br />Vietnam will have annual quotas for duty-free imports of 11,500 metric tons (MT) of canned tuna and 500 MT of canned fish balls in the single market. Additional volumes beyond the quotas will be taxed, according to reports from the Directorate of Fisheries of Vietnam and the Vietnamese Finance Ministry’s National Institute for Finance.<br />Vietnam exported $1.11 billion (€967 million) worth of seafood products to the E.U. in the first nine months of 2018, mainly comprised of shrimp, pangasius, and tuna said the directorate. That total is up 6.2% from the same period last year.<br />A major change will be felt by shrimp exporters, who are currently taxed by 20% on the European market, leading to an advantage in front of Indian shrimp exporters, the main competitor for Vietnamese products in this market. Vietnam exported USD 648 million (€564.4 million) worth of shrimp exports to the E.U. in the first nine months of 2018, up 11.1% year-on-year.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-06 06:43:48	2025-08-12 07:49:06	Details Edit Delete
2146	Australian sheep sector to remain strong in the next five years	A Rabobank analysis shows that that are segments among consumers that are willing to pay more for sheep meat and by-products as long as they meet the requirements for quality, authenticity, and transparency.	<p>Global consumption of sheep meat is expected to increase at a 1.6% CAGR over the next five years with prospects for value growth in new markets. <br />There will be limited volume growth in wool consumption as supply remains under pressure from the current dry conditions, but Rabobank believes that continued demand from both traditional markets and new consumers will help sustain the value growth for wool seen since 2015. "Wool and lamb are well placed to leverage existing characteristics and target new consumers," according to Angus Gidley Baird, RaboResearch Senior Analyst – Animal Protein.</p> <p>Millennials would pay more for sheep meat and other produces resulted from this sector as long as those items will respond to their demand in terms of quality, authenticity, and transparency. "Australian sheep producers are already well placed to capitalise on these new markets as they have a good reputation for quality. However, there will be strong competition from alternative fibres and proteins for these same markets and producers will need to continue to look for improvements in the areas of transparency, quality, and flexibility", added the analyst.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-06 11:48:02	2025-08-11 16:43:15	Details Edit Delete
2147	Croatian lamb product receives PGI status	Croatia's 'Li?ka janjetina' has received from the European Commission the status of 'Protected Geographical Indications (PGI)', being the country's 20th product protected by the EU.	<p>'Li?ka janjetina' or 'Lika lamb' is a lamb meat from local Lika Curly sheep breed raised in Lika-Senj and Zadar Counties. The specific aromatic profile of the cooked meat of ‘Li?ka janjetina' is due to the botanical composition of the meadows and pastures on which the Lika lambs are raised.</p> <p>The new denomination is to be added to the list of over 1,400 quality products protected at the EU level.</p> <p>"The interest by manufacturers to protect their products shows an awareness of the importance of marketing domestic products. Apart from the proven origin and top quality, there is even more added value, better competitiveness and market visibility for our producers," said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Tomislav Tolu&scaron;i?, according to Total Croatia News.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-06 09:56:23	2025-08-12 15:46:35	Details Edit Delete
2148	Two major feeder pig producers, Denmark and Netherlands, are under financial pressure	Higher feed costs have reduced the margins for feeder pig by 23% compared to 2017, according to a Canadian analyst.	<p>The inventory numbers for the pigs in the EU may be steady in the last few years but the profitability is in decline, observes Jim Long, president and CEO at Genesus Canada.<br />"One indicator of market trouble is the collapse of feeder pig prices now at €33 per head, 23% lower than a year ago. This reflects more supply than demand and is putting large financial pressure on two major feeder pig producers: Denmark and the Netherlands. Feeder pig prices are seen to be challenged by higher feed costs. The average hog price in EU is around €1.45 kilogram, which is a good price for America but not great for EU producers", commented Mr Long in his Global Market report.<br />That is explaining also why the trade block is the world's largest exporter of pork. Export data presented by the European Commision shows that in the first eight months of this year EU exported 2,564,438 tonnes of pork.<br />Over a third of EU’s exports go to China, who is a big market for EU and have done a much better job capturing the market compared to the United States, despite weekly hog prices significantly higher, mentions the report.<br />"Obviously EU hog prices are higher, but we don’t sell market hogs into export markets. We sell pork. We don’t have all the correct data but we expect if we had the wholesale pork cut-outs prices the difference would be much narrower due to the fact that the US packer gross margins have been historically high over the last three years. EU packer margins haven’t been as good. Consequently, the pork prices between countries in much narrower than hog prices would indicate", added Jim Long.<br />Inside the EU, Spain has by far the largest sow herd and total inventory. Over the last ten years, Spain has had dynamic growth as the integrator model they employ has worked very well relative to independent producer model of Northern Europe. In the last 12 months, the country reported an increase of 5.2% in its live swine inventory. Spain is followed by Ireland and Poland, both with a 4.2% increase, and Denmark (+3.3%).</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-06 15:59:42	2025-08-11 16:06:25	Details Edit Delete
2149	Danish Crown's new factory to deliver 250 tonnes of pork per week in China		<p>Even if is not producing yet, the new factory that Danish Crown is preparing in China is already signing big deals in this market. For the next five years, all the capacity at the new plant will be used to supply Win-Chain, Alibaba’s data-driven aggregated global sourcing platform for perishable food.<br />"It is fantastic for Danish Crown to land such a big contract with Win-Chain and the Alibaba Group. At one fell swoop, our products will be made available on Win-Chain’s digital platforms and also in the Alibaba-owned supermarket chains throughout the Shanghai region", says Jais Valeur, Group CEO.<br />The two companies have started to work closely since August last year when an agreement was signed on the sales and marketing of Danish Crown products on Alibaba’s Tmall, the largest B2C platform for international and Chinese brands and retailers. From summer 2019, this cooperation will be extended to embrace a far wider range of products which will all be processed and packed at the Danish Crown factory in Pinghu outside Shanghai.<br />"Danish produce enjoys an excellent reputation and Danish Crown products already have a large and loyal customer base in China. Danish Crown’s integrated farm-to-fork production ensures produce of a uniformly high quality, and Chinese consumers are also attracted by the strong focus on innovation and sustainability. We look forward to working closely together to bring quality Danish meat products to the over 600 million annual active consumers on Alibaba’s platforms’", commented Richard Wang, Managing Director Fresh Meat in Win-Chain.<br />Danish Crown has successfully exported pork to China for a number of years, but until now, customers have mostly been Chinese distributors and processing companies. However, consumption patterns in China are changing rapidly, and getting closer to the Chinese consumer is one of the cornerstones of Danish Crown’s strategy.</p> <p>"The Chinese market is evolving very rapidly at the moment, and there are actually three things happening all at once. First, e-commerce is exploding, with consumers buying the products they want online and having them delivered to their front door only a few hours later. In my view, Shanghai now has the world’s most advanced market for e-commerce. Next, instead of buying fresh meat at the so-called ‘wet markets’, consumers have started purchasing retail-packed products in the supermarkets, in exactly the same way that we shop in Denmark. Finally, a growing number of Chinese are eating out, similar to the trend we are seeing in the US and Europe. We are now moving further up in the value chain in China, and I see significant potential in this", says Jais Valeur.</p> <p>In the spring, Danish Crown broke the ground for the group’s first processing facility in China. The 17,000-square-metre new facility will be sited less than 100 km from Shanghai. It has been designed to produce 14,000 tonnes of processed products a year, first and foremost for the more than 25 million people living in Shanghai, but also for the rest of the Chinese population, which currently stands at almost 1.4 billion people.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-06 16:12:26	2025-08-11 14:40:48	Details Edit Delete
2150	US beef exports continue strong pace, says USMEF	US beef exports remained strong in September, although there were slightly lower than in August but still significantly higher year-over-year, according to data released by USDA and compiled by US Meat Export Federation (USMEF).	<p>US beef exports in September increased by 6% compared to a year ago to 110,160 metric tons (mt) with a value of $687.1 million, which was also up 11% in the mentioned period.<br />In the first nine months of the year, US beef exports increased by 9% to 1 million mt and their value surged by 18% to $6.2 billion. USMEF said that for beef muscle cuts only, the year-over-year increases were even more impressive, jumping 13 percent in volume (777,740 mt) and 20 percent in value ($5.54 billion).</p> <p>Exports accounted for 13.7 percent of total beef production in September and 11.4 percent for muscle cuts only, up from 12.5 percent and 10.4 percent, respectively, a year ago. For the first three quarters of 2018, exports accounted for 13.5 percent of total production (up from 12.8 percent) and 11.1 percent for muscle cuts – up one full percentage point from last year. Beef export value equated to $334.63 per head of fed slaughter in September and $320.85 for January through September, each up 16 percent from a year ago.</p> <p>“With a full quarter still to be reported, beef export value records are already being surpassed in some markets and global value is on track for $8 billion by year’s end,” said USMEF President and CEO Dan Halstrom.</p>	1		Industry		2018-11-06 14:25:29	2025-08-11 18:03:26	Details Edit Delete

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