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Date:2014/01/14
A searing heatwave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought-hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013.
Temperatures have topped 40...
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Date:2013/06/19
The largest pork producer in the U.S., Smithfield Foods (SFD), announced a 63 percent plunge in net income for its most recent quarter, the result of China and Russia banning U.S. pork earlier this year. The weak earnings, coming on the...
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Date:2013/02/27
US - Starting 1 March, China plans to stop importing US pork unless it is verified to be ractopamine-free by a third party. Earlier this month Russia announced they are stopping the import of US beef and pork because of ractopamine use in the ...
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Date:2013/06/19
When the biggest name in Chinese pork is poised to buy the biggest name in American pork, it’s tempting to speculate what the purchase will bring.
Shuanghui International hopes its $4.7 billion acquisition of Virginia-based...
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Date:2014/08/22
The Australian dairy industry is on a charm offensive in China this week in an effort to get more support for a Free Trade Agreement between the countries.
Dairy farmers and dignitaries including the Australian Ambassador to China will present at...
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Date:2013/05/01
A new front in the battle for global beef markets is emerging from the pacific, with Australian producers benefiting this week from the launch of a series of measures from China.
In the past few months Australian beef exports have carved massi...
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Date:2013/02/26
China is not yet requiring a third-party review of Canadian pork imports to ensure they are free of the feed additive ractopamine, Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Monday.
But Ritz said he expects China to require third-party v...
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Date:2014/08/07
China's chicken exports are expected to rise to 450,000 tonnes this year, according to the China Animal Agriculture Association on Sunday.
Gong Guifen, deputy secretary-general of the association's poultry branch, said exports reached 52 countries...
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Date:2013/04/27
China is now officially Australia's third largest beef export destination by month, following the Chinese crackdown on illegal imports.
Australian beef shipments to China grew by 2,200 per cent in the first quarter of this year, totalling 29,000 tonn...
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Date:2013/01/23
The cost of pork rose more than 10 percent in the past two months, according to Xinhua News Agency''s price system on national farm produce.
All provinces, regions and municipalities saw rises, except Hainan, according to data collected between Nov 1...
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Date:2013/08/05
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said Monday that the contamination of dairy products with a bacterium that can cause botulism was extremely serious and the government was deeply concerned about it.
Key, along with Trade Minister Tim Groser...
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Date:2013/04/27
The overall result for the month, while representative of the increase in cattle slaughter and beef production so far in 2013, fell short of half-month estimates for March, most likely due to the shorter working week for Easter.
With trading conditio...
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Date:2013/01/07
The U.K.’s pork exports climbed about 13 percent in October, compared with a year earlier, in part as Chinese demand increased, according to the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board.
The U.K. shipped 14,900 metric tons of fresh and ...
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Date:2013/06/24
China's dairy industry has seen several serious scandals that have created widespread public concern over the safety and quality of its products. In response, authorities have now launched a stricter supervision process for dairy goods.
Finally, acti...
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Date:2013/04/24
China is now officially Australia's third largest beef export destination by month, following the Chinese crackdown on illegal imports.
Australian beef shipments to China grew by 2,200 per cent in the first quarter of this year, totalling 29,000 tonn...
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Date:2013/01/01
Increasingly lower temperatures in the past month has led to rising pork prices, according to Xinhua News Agency's price system on national farm produce.
Pork prices were up 5.2 percent on Saturday from Nov 20, the price system showed.
Northern and n...
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Date:2013/03/28
The demand for New Zealand dairy products in China continues to grow, despite importers being forced to pay more as the New Zealand import quota runs out earlier each year.
This year the quota was used up before the end of January. Last year i...
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Date:2013/04/24
A beef industry expert says China could be a bigger beef export market than Indonesia if live trade can be opened up with Australia.
The country's demand is rising with boxed beef imports growing from 400 tonnes in March last year to 1,200 ton...
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Date:2012/12/12
An increasingly larger share of US beef, pork and poultry production now goes to export markets, making trade flows a critical driver for meat protein prices. Based on the latest USDA December estimates, beef exports in 2013 will account for ...
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Date:2013/03/07
Regulators in China and the United States have resolved a nearly three-year dispute over health and sanitary certification of US dairy exports, ensuring continued shipments to a fast-growing market.
The two countries had been negotiating a new...