Professional meat industry body The Institute of Meat (IoM) has said that a new report issued by think-tank The Social Market Foundation (SNF), which asserts that more needs to be done to raise the status of technical and vocational occupations, is long...
International meat producer Vion has said it is facing a number of challenges in 2019 after being hit by low cattle hide prices and high pig prices during 2018.
Food and farming trade associations across Europe have called on the EU to make further contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit to limit potential disruptions to the food chain.
The European Commission may more than triple the duty-free export quota on boneless chicken breasts for Ukraine poultry companies, bringing it to 70,000 tonnes (t) per year, if Ukraine agrees to some import duties on in-bone chicken breasts.
Red meat processor Dunbia has been fined more than £266,000 by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for the failure to remove parts of the animal designated specified risk materials.
Filip Fontaine is set to take over as general director of VLAM, Flanders’ Agricultural Marketing Board, replacing Frans De Wachter who will retire on 1 July 2019.
International meat processing business Hilton Food Group has revealed it has taken “mitigating action” and believes it is “sufficiently resilient” to withstand Brexit uncertainties, as it unveiled an increase in turnover and profits for the 52 weeks ended...
Russian meat producer Miratorg has signed an agreement with a group of scientists to study the genetic markers of cold resistance in the Aberdeen Angus genome.
Russia’s biggest meat producer Cherkizovo is reportedly eyeing a takeover of another poultry business – agricultural holding Eurodon, following the acquisitions of the broiler holding Belaya Ptitsa and the meat processor Samson in December 2018.
Poultry processor Cargill and charity Heifer International have joined forces to create a new initiative which aims to improve the nutrition and economic livelihoods of 100m people by 2030 through the production, promotion and consumption of poultry....
Polish retail chain Grupa Dino Polska plans to invest further in increasing its production capacity, and launch a second facility in Poland, according to the company’s financial report for 2018.
The Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed has highlighted the risks that come with a no-deal Brexit on the Irish and EU food sectors.
Discount supermarket chain Aldi has been recognised as the strongest supporter of Scottish Beef after a National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Scotland ‘shelf watch’ survey revealed almost 96% of beef stocked on its shelves was Scotch Beef PGI.
Major Russian turkey company Damate has revealed plans to build the biggest kosher meat processing plant in the country, with the aim of establishing exports to Israel.
Bulgarian meat producer and processor Gradus AD has completed an investment worth BGN3.5 million (€1.8m) to increase its broiler breeding capacity by launching a new facility.
German-based food stabiliser supplier Hydrosol will present a range of solutions for the meat and plant-based food markets at the largest international meat trade show, IFFA, in Frankfurt this year.
Growth rates in Russia’s poultry industry were the lowest for the past two decades in 2018, with several dozen companies going bankrupt due to avian influenza (AI), rising costs and extremely low profitability
Last week, British beef and lamb producers were eyeing the Japanese market following the lifting of a 23-year import ban in January 2019, and with a presence at Japan’s Foodex, Asia’s largest food and drink exhibition.
Russia is going to use its “vast natural opportunities” to produce clean, organic agricultural products both for the Russian and for foreign markets, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, speaking to a Federal Assembly in late February.
GlobalMeatNews is delighted to announce that we will be welcoming Heather Mills as the keynote speaker for our plant-based protein conference in Amsterdam this summer.
Animal feed organisation Royal De Heus has acquired a majority stake in poultry and pig feed business D-Mix and will carry on the business under the name Koudijs Ukraine.
The Government has been warned against a “race to the bottom” in food standards, following the US ambassador’s suggestion that the UK embrace practices such as chlorine-washed chicken.
The Pasture-Fed Livestock Association (PFLA) has agreed that any Irish farmers and processors interested in gaining third-party assurance for grass-fed meat can now be certified.
Noble Foods and Cranswick, as well as some UK retailers, have been praised as global leaders for their farm animal welfare practices in The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW)’s latest report.
The European Commission is set to offer farmers greater “flexibility and efficiency” in times of crisis, with funds of up to €25,000 as part of the new state aid rules.
