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22 January 2020
Updates on the UK's Rural Payments schemeLatest figures on Rural Payments Agency shows record levels of payments across three schemes. 97 percent of farmers and land managers eligible for the Basic Payment Scheme received funding by 20 January, £109 million paid to customers under Countryside...
21 January 2020
What’s the best way to improve the UK’s farm productivity?Tim Mordan from the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs gives a policymaker’s perspective on how the UK can improve its farm productivity and safeguard the environment as it leaves the EU trading bloc....
20 January 2020
CME: Beef Retail Prices Accelerate During November, December 2019US - Beef retail prices accelerated in the last two months of 2019, writes Steiner Consulting Group, DLR Division, Inc....
18 January 2020
New updates to parasite control guideThe Control of Worms Sustainably in cattle group (COWS) has released updated chapters of its technical guide to parasite control, at the Animal Health Distributors’ Association conference in Birmingham on 15 January....
17 January 2020
Are we measuring ruminant methane emissions correctly? Researchers at Oxford University have developed GWP*, a new climate metric that accurately measures the impact of methane emissions on global warming – recontextualising the debate surrounding ruminant methane emissions and climate change. ...
13 ag-tech innovators transforming livestock productionIn the endeavour for better animal welfare and improved sustainability, new disruptive innovations are emerging to enable farmers to monitor the health of their herds in real-time, prevent disease outbreaks, and optimise nutrition....
New Agriculture Bill to boost environment and food productionA future where farmers are properly supported to farm more innovatively and protect the environment is a step closer today following the introduction of the Agriculture Bill....
Trade deals to dictate success of the UK's new Agriculture BillOrganic Farmers & Growers (OF&G), the largest certifier of UK organic land has reacted to the new Agriculture Bill introduced to Parliament....
16 January 2020
QMS's Future Strategy Highlighted to MSPsSCOTLAND, UK - Quality Meat Scotland’s future strategy to further support, develop, promote and protect the Scottish red meat industry has been highlighted to MSPs....
USMEF Emphasises Importance of China Following International Standards for Pork, Beef TradeUS - On 15 January, President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed the US-China "Phase One" trade agreement. The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has posted the agreement text and related fact sheets online....
First Phase of US-China Trade Deal FinalisedUS - In an effort to ease tensions between their two countries, President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He yesterday signed the first phase of a trade agreement. At the time of the signing, the deal’s text had not yet been published. ...
Can the UK farming sector achieve net zero carbon emissions? Achieving net zero carbon emissions on-farm was one of the hot topics debated at the Oxford Real Farming Conference on 8 January. Panellists from the House of Commons, Chatham House, NFU, Green Alliance UK and the Nature Friendly Farming Network debated...
15 January 2020
NFU Says Livestock Competition Rule Unlikely to Provide Needed Protections to FarmersUS - More than two years after failing to finalise a set of rules to protect American family farmers and ranchers from anticompetitive and abusive business practices from the increasingly consolidated meatpacking and processing industries, the US Department...
14 January 2020
CME: Estimates for 2020 Beef Production Revised Down SlightlyUS - On 10 January 2020, USDA released a slew of reports and this DLR will highlight a few key points from select reports, writes Steiner Consulting Group, DLR Division, Inc. ...
Global Diets Converging, with Benefits and ProblemsGLOBAL - Research carried out by the University of Kent has shown that diets are changing in complex ways worldwide. ...
Dire Prediction for SA Beef Exports After FMD OutbreakSOUTH AFRICA - SA could lose up to $140m (R2.02bn) in 2020 as countries in the region and elsewhere hold back on importing its beef due to a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak....
13 January 2020
CME: Feeder Cattle Contract for August, September 2020 Translate to Nice ProfitUS - Time to start planning: Heading into spring, summer grazing programmes should take note of the feeder cattle futures board, writes Steiner Consulting Group, DLR Division, Inc....
US Hopes for Progress on Pork, Beef Imports in Tsai 2nd TermTAIWAN - James Moriarty, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), told reporters on 11 January that "the US hopes for progress" on US pork and beef imports to Taiwan during President Tsai Ing-wen’s second term in...
Budget Allocated to Help Beef Cattle Farmers Increase CompetitivenessTHAILAND - The Free Trade Agreement Fund has approved a budget of Bt161.79 million for the Department of Livestock Development to help beef cattle farmers increase their competitiveness and improve product quality to compete with overseas products, Rapheephat...
Technical Efficiencies Made Over Past Decade Crucial to Long-term Financial ViabilityUK - As we start a new decade, hindsight emphasises the challenges our industry will continue to face, according to the latest market commentary by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS). ...
10 January 2020
CME: November Beef Exports Down Compared to Year AgoUS - Monthly trade data for November was released by USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) on 8 January 2020, reports Steiner Consulting Group, DLR Division, Inc....
IFA Says Race to Bottom Must Stop, Beef Prices Must RiseIRELAND - Speaking at the Beef Taskforce meeting in Dublin yesterday, IFA President Joe Healy told the main retailers that the unsustainable discounting of top-quality beef was a race to the bottom that has to stop....
NFU Responds to 'Apocalypse Cow' DocumentaryUK - Last week, Channel 4 released a documentary called Apocalypse Cow: How Meat Killed the Planet wherein the channel refers to it as a "provocative documentary" and how "environmental campaigner George Monbiot argues the biggest problem driving us towards...
Additional 'Meat the Market' Workshops AnnouncedSCOTLAND, UK - The next in the series of 'Meat the Market' workshops will be held at Scotbeef in Bridge of Allan at the start of next month....
Claw Disease Tyloma Primarily Genetic in CowsGERMANY - Scientists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and Georg August University Göttingen have succeeded in proving that a claw disease in cows is primarily genetic. ...
09 January 2020
CME: Evaporation of Large Beef Packer Margins in DecemberUS - Large beef packer margins evaporated in December after recording highs earlier in 2019, reports Steiner Consulting Group, DLR Division, Inc....
Farm Gate Podcast: Practical Solutions for Climate and Food SecurityFarm Gate, a new podcast, has launched focused on practical solutions for climate and food security. The topics are relevant for everyone who eats food, but particularly intended for farmers, food chain professionals and policy makers....
November Beef Exports Trail 2018US - November exports of US beef were below the previous year’s large totals, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the USMEF....
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