The Argentinean government has banned all unprocessed beef exports, with the exception of High Quality “Hilton” cuts to the EU and offals as of the 13 March for an undefined period. The ban comes as a result of scarce beef supplies and soaring retail prices in the domestic market.

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Scarce supplies of Argentinean beef in the EU (Argentina’s highest value export market) are increasingly being replaced by other suppliers’ products. The tighter supply from Argentina is due to the significant reduction in the number of export certificates issued by the local government.

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Argentinean beef exports are still being blocked by customs, with a number of containers being returned to cold stores, despite the Secretary for Domestic Trade (SCI) announcing that the ban will end soon. The ban comes as a result of the low supplies and soaring beef prices in the domestic market.

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The announcement has not yet been formalized but it is certainly getting very close to the day when it is finally made public. Argentina will be formally accepted into the Four Nations and will start competing from 2012 against South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. The doors are set to upon for a regular competition. Every year, from 2012, Los Pumas will play a home game against the Springboks, the All Blacks and the Wallabies. Mouth-watering prospect.

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Almost ninety years have gone by since an inflationary explosion devastated Germany’s middle class, but folk memories of the days when it took a wheelbarrow full of banknotes to buy a bus ticket still scare the living daylights out of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the people who actually experienced it. Whenever inflation threatens to raise its head, Germans do whatever it takes to make it go away, a habit that has not made them very popular among their fellow Europeans. But Argentines are made of sterner stuff. Though they never suffered anything quite as dramatic as the catastrophe that put paid to the Weimar Republic and, according to some historians, opened the doors of power to the Nazis, their encounter with the beast lasted for a great deal longer. However, instead of deciding it would be foolish to let it go back on the rampage, many came to the conclusion that they should simply learn to put up with its destructive habits.

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Speculation is rife that India is about to release some of its stored wheat into already saturated global markets.

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114 quality Angus bulls sold to a top of $20,000 and averaged $5864 at Stephen and Noeleen Branson's Banquet Angus sale recently. The very strong top end of the sale that saw the first 40 bulls offered average over $7800. While 18 bulls sold for $10,000 or more, there was outstanding value to be found throughout the catalogue with 55 bulls selling for $4500 or less. The Banquet bulls obviously work very well for their buyers, as 99 of the 114 bulls sold went to repeat clients.

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Australia is one of the largest meat exporters in the world and is a world leader in halal production. One of its largest export markets is the United States of America, and Australian meat is widely sold all over America in numerous butchers, restaurants, and retailers

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What is the risk of an Australian consumer eating imported beef which is infected with BSE? Answer - Non-existent.

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Australia shipped 26,581 tonnes swt of beef to Japan in February, down 11% from the same period in 2009 (Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry). While interest from Japan, and some prices, for Australian beef improved during the month, the extensive rain across the eastern states kept cattle supplies very tight, limting processing volumes.

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No matter what trade defences Australia erects, it may not be able to prevent domestic cases of “atypical” BSE - a cattle disease that seems to occur spontaneously, and which despite having no known health risks carries the same damaging trade implications as “classical” BSE. Meanwhile, the world appears to be heading in the right direction for full eradication of classical BSE, the “mad cow disease” that devastated the British livestock industry in the mid-1980s and has subsequently killed 166 Britons.

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ABARE The Australian cattle herd is forecast to slowly rebuild towards 28 million head over the next five years, underpinned by favourable conditions in northern Australia and improved incomes for cattle producers, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics’ (ABARE) Australian commodities, released this week.

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In recent times, bush policeman detective-sergeant Mark Kerswell, Mareeba, has had his hands on a metal detector. On a property near Tully, 27 cattle have been found dead and Mr Kerswell had been using the good old method of trial and error to come to a conclusion as to why this consignment of cattle bound for live export were dead.

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A western Victorian ultrafine wool grower has produced the world's finest bale of wool. The Sandlant family, of Lexton, produced an 11.4 micron bale, only the second in the world to test to those standards and the first that will go to auction.

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While the State Government anticipates a $1 billion economic injection thanks to the floods boosting agricultural output, in the short-term it is facing a clean up bill to ensure farmers can hit the ground running. Primary Industries Minister Tim Mulherin held a phone hook-up on Friday with AgForce, the Queensland Farmers' Federation and senior DEEDI staff to map out the next steps in flood assistance for primary producers.

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The lentil is commonly associated with the Indian dish dhal, flatulence and Neil the Hippy from the BBC comedy The Young Ones almost 30 years ago

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Overseas demand for high quality Australian livestock delivered its strongest returns in seven years in 2009, with export earnings reaching a total of A$996.5 million* and cattle exports to Indonesia at a record high

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Cattle, sheep and lamb markets remained strong this week, with cattle yardings at MLA’s NLRS reported sales down 8% on last year, sheep 42% and lambs 15%. The Queensland floods continue to hamper transport, with some sales cancelled again this week, and a public holiday affecting Victorian and SA numbers.

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Meat and Livestock Australia says there are signs beef markets are beginning to recover from low prices.

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Sheep producers will be able to test their knowledge about the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) and enter to win $100 worth of NLIS eartags at the Department of Agriculture and Food display at the Wagin Woolorama

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Organic food is gradually becoming established within the diet of Australian households, according to the Biological Farmers of Australia (BFA).

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Australian retail sales rose in January, rebounding from the biggest decline in 10 months and adding to signs of an economic recovery that may prompt the central bank to boost borrowing costs today.

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Mr McDonald the chairman of Bindaree Beef , was misquoted in the Australian media in regard to a statement he made in relation to the MSA and at no time did Mr McDonald ever say they the MSA should be trashed

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The national commodity forecaster expects improved yields for summer crops after good rains in north-eastern Australia

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NSW beef processor and industry agitator Bindaree Beef appears to be using some creative accounting methods in its on-going war against beef industry bodies. In advertisements placed this week in Rural Press newspapers, Bindaree Beef claims producers pay $10 a head in levies and that only 50c per $10 is spent on domestic promotion.

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Belgian unions are unlikely to announce further strike action at local Carrefour stores over the weekend in a dispute over planned closures and job cuts, a union official said.

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The Agriculture State Secretary of the southern Brazilian state of Paraná has requested to the Ministry of Agriculture to cease foot and mouth disease (FMD) vaccinations in the state, with the objective of acquiring ‘FMD free without vaccination’ status. If achieved, Paraná would be the second state in Brazil to obtain this status after neighbouring Santa Catarina

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A Associação Brasileira de Hereford e Braford(ABHB) em parceria com o Centro de Pesquisa Embrapa Pecuária Sul promovem nos dias 25 e 26 março de 2010, no auditório da Embrapa Pecuária Sul em Bagé, o 2º Curso de melhoramento genético de bovinos de corte do PampaPlus - Programa de Avaliação Genética das Raças Hereford e Braford da ABHB.

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Mercosur/Israel free trade agreement becomes effective April Brazil expects a new free trade agreement with Israel to swell bilateral trade to more than 3 billion US dollars within five years, officials said on Monday. Trade between Israel and Brazil slipped below 1 billion USD in 2009 from a peak of 1.6 billion USD in 2008 -- 1.2 billion USD of which were Israeli exports -- due to the global economic crisis. But a new free trade agreement between Israel and the Mercosur bloc -- Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay -- goes into effect in early April. Israel is the first non-Latin American country to sign such a trade deal with Mercosur.

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Net revenue for the year was R$34,311.8 million ($19,1900.4 million), representing a 13.1% increase year over year. Consolidated E.B.I.T.D.A. in the fourth quarter increased 49.6% compared to 4Q08, from R$265.9 million ($148.71million) to R$397.8 million ($222.48 million). Consolidated E.B.I.T.D.A. margin was 5.4% for the period, compared with 2.8% for 4Q08. JBS finished 2009 with the growth revenue of 13.1% when compared to the prior year, mainly due to the completion of the acquisition of Smithfield Beef near the end of 2008, partially offset by the deteriorating market conditions caused by the global crisis, and a consequent reduction of sale prices in the beef and Pork operations of the U.S.

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JBS SA, the world’s biggest beef producer, said it agreed to buy Rockdale Beef in Australia, without disclosing how much it would pay.

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Minerva SA, a Brazilian meat producer, rose the most in five months after a report that bigger competitor Marfrig Alimentos SA may pay as much as 1 billion reais ($567 million) to buy the company.

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China took over from the United States as Brazil's top market in 2009, indicating a qualitative change for exports from the South American giant, which is increasingly dependent on sales of commodities and food

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Alberta barley growers' checkoff dollars will generate a little less of a tax write-off on their 2009 tax returns. The Alberta Barley Commission, which oversees the collection and distribution of the barley checkoff from growers in that province, has pegged the percentage of the 2009 checkoff eligible for a federal scientific research and experimental development (SR+ED) tax credit at 23 per cent.

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Ownership of several Canadian nitrogen facilities is again up in the air as U.S. fertilizer firm Terra Industries has accepted a new proposal from the suitor it rejected for over a year. Terra's Chicago-based rival CF Industries, which has made several rejected hostile bids for Terra since January last year, appears to have wooed its target with its March 2 cash-and-stock bid, worth an estimated US$4.7 billion.

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China is setting up a new agency to help streamline its trade negotiating bureaucracy as the world's third-largest economy faces a growing number of commercial disputes.

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Company in the People's Republic of China, today announced that it will host its fourth quarter and full year 2009 earnings conference call and live webcast at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday, March 12, 2010 (which is 9:00 p.m. in China on the same day).

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Key regulators from Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana and Egypt including His Excellency Amin Abaza, Egypt's Minister of Agriculture & Land Reclamation, will highlight farmland and agri-investment opportunities in their countries. They will join top investors, experts and advisors in outlining Investment opportunities, risk management & financing solutions for Large Scale Farming Investment in Africa.

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Horn of Africa reporters have been tracing the aggressive entry of foreign investors who have leased from Ethiopian government large tracts of arable land. Reporter Tizita Belachew gives an overview of what some critics have called the “new colonialism.”

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Beef consumption in the EU is expected to continue falling in 2010, mainly the result of lower production, limited supplies from Brazil, the economic slowdown since 2008, high beef prices and increasing popularity of cheap poultry meat (United States Department of Agriculture).

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IFFA 2010, Technology meats Business: No. 1 for processing, packaging, selling, will open its doors in Frankfurt am Main from 8 to 13 May. With registrations having been received from all international market leaders, Messe Frankfurt takes an optimistic view of this event for the international meat-processing sector. “Despite the difficult economic situation, we anticipate roughly the same number of exhibitors and visitors as at the last event. This is solid evidence of the undisputed status of IFFA as the leading trade fair for the sector and also the reason the sector expects IFFA to generate significant business impulses”, says Detlef Braun, Member of the Board of Management of Messe Frankfurt. Altogether, Messe Frankfurt expects around 900 companies to present their latest products and services on more than 100,000 square metres of exhibition space to some 60,000 trade visitors from more than 100 countries.

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AveMix XG-10 is a new EU-authorized enzyme concept for use in broilers. AveMix XG 10, a multi-enzyme combination, has acquired EU-authorisation under Reg (EC) 1831/2003 for use in chickens for fattening in both powder and liquid form (identification number: 4a9).

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At the Fourth Annual Food Industry Summit of St. Joseph's University/Philadelphia/USA top executives exchanged their views about "Meeting the Challenges of Today's Marketplace". Speakers

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Roel van der Zanden announces change of company name to VDZ trading BV.

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Building upon the success of the past events, and moving further ahead Pixie Consulting Solutions Limited is now going to organize two mega international events IAIEXPO 2010 (International Animal Industry Expo) in October 2010 and ISRMAX (International Sugar, Rice, Maize and Agriculture Expo) India in 10-13 February 2011 and. Pixie Consulting Solutions Ltd. celebrates diversity by opening barriers and cutting borders through globalization.

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Marel at Foodex stand W006

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Big Buck's cemented his position as the top staying hurdler in the business as he achieved back-to-back victories in the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on Thursday

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Tuesday March 16 2010 Cheltenham 15:20 - Result Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle (grade 1) £370000 added, 4yo plus, 2m 110y, Class 1, £210937 penalty, 12 ran Going: Good to Soft (Good in places, Cross Country Good,Good to Soft in places)

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Master Minded was dethroned in the Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase as Big Zeb expunged his fall of 12 months earlier to land the highlight on day two of the Cheltenham Festival. The Irish raider's career has been blighted by jumping inaccuracies - a claim evidenced a year ago when he was still travelling menacingly well before coming down at the second-last.

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Paul Nolan from Dawn Meats told farmers that in consultation with their Continental customers, they had developed a protocol that would allow for heifers to be calved down prior to fattening them. Nolan told farmers that provided the animals were produced to the correct specification,

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Dawm Farm Foods has won a €700m contract to supply the Subway sandwich chain in Europe with meat products for the next seven years.

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Plans are being made by the European Commission for the electronic identification of cattle next year. But the Fine Gael spokesman on agriculture, Michael Creed TD, said Ireland should not be co-operative with the move.

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Moves to introduce electronic tagging for cattle have gathered pace, with EU sources indicating that a white paper on the issue will be published by the Commission shortly. While details of the new proposals have yet to be confirmed, the initiative is certain to meet with strong farmer opposition given the increased costs involved for cattle producers and doubts about the benefits that will accrue from its introduction.

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Coolamber Manor is an exceptional country house built c.1830 by the Blackhall family. Classic lifestyle in the perfect cattlemans or meat traders dream home.

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Delays in the delivery of 12-digit tags for the electronic tagging of sheep (EID) could affect the live export trade to Britain and France.

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Again this year, hundreds of dairy farmers are expected from all over Europe. Entirely financed by the farmers themselves and by the sponsors, the congress is an important meeting place where producers, researchers and processors can meet up to address perspectives for the European dairy sector.

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The III Global Feed & Food Congress in Cancun will be the world feed industry's most significant event in 2010. Hosted by the Mexican Feed Manufacturers Association, CONAFAB, it is being organised by the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) with technical participation from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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The III Global Feed & Food Congress takes place in Cancun, Mexico, on April 20-23, 2010.

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The former director general of the National Farmers' Union, Richard Macdonald CBE, has joined Moy Park as a non-executive director. Mr Macdonald took up the position at the beginning of February 2010 and will join the Moy Park Board working closely with the Executive team and CEO, Nigel Dunlop. He will become the first non-executive to join the board of directors since Mr Dunlop joined Moy Park in 2008.

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With a fall of four per cent in the dairy herd and two per cent in the beef herd, the total number of cattle on Northern Ireland farms is at its lowest for some time, the Department of Agriculture's December 2009 Agricultural Survey has revealed.

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Meat and foodprocessing equipment manufacturer Marel has reached an agreement with the Dutch investor Nimbus on the sale of the Food & Dairy Systems division of Stork Food Systems, excluding its operations in Spain

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Foodmate, a food and meat equipment manufacturing and service company, has developed a label remover for crates, totes and boxes. The label remover is equipped with a specially-developed, high-pressure spraying system that removes the labels and the glue. It can be adapted to existing washing lines. “Label removing has become a huge issue in the food processing industry,” Foodmate owner David Hazenbroek said.

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Today McDonald’s New Zealand became the first McDonald’s market in the world to offer customers Weight Watchers Approved Meals.

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Farming industry body Meat and Wool New Zealand is to get a new name following a sheep farmers' vote last year to stop paying the wool levy. From April 16, wool growers will cease to pay the levy on their fleece which has funded R&D and marketing efforts in their sector for decades.

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The former director general of the National Farmers' Union, Richard Macdonald CBE, has joined Moy Park as a non-executive director. Mr Macdonald took up the position at the beginning of February 2010 and will join the Moy Park Board working closely with the Executive team and CEO, Nigel Dunlop. He will become the first non-executive to join the board of directors since Mr Dunlop joined Moy Park in 2008.

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The Board of Investment would facilitate private sector to explore and tap Pakistan’s potential for the Halal production with an aim to attract investments and enhance exports from the country. Halal Development Project (HDP), a non-governmental organization, has initiated a project to promote the Halal trade and industry of Pakistan to facilitate suppliers by providing platform for halal awareness, standards, certification, branding, marketing, investment promotion, industry development and updates.

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Russia's London-listed meat producer Cherkizovo group said on Wednesday it would buy two pork plants from its main shareholders, a move that could raise capacity by 30 percent. In a statement Cherkizovo said two plants recently built in central Russia would cost the group about $100 million, of which $20 million would be paid in cash.

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Extortion by corrupt officials in Russia has gotten so bad that some Western multinationals are considering pulling out altogether, the head of a US anti-bribery group said in an interview. Alexandra Wrage, whose non-profit organization TRACE International advises firms on how to avoid bribery, said the "rampant endemic" corruption in Russia was much worse than in other big emerging economies.

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The first shipments of U.S. pork to Russia since a trade agreement was reached earlier this month should be shipped within a week's time, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday.

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This year's Royal Highland Show may still be more than three months away, but organisers are already having to plan to limit the numbers of cattle coming to the event, writes Andrew Arbuckle. "For cattle, we have stalling for 960 head," said show manager David Dunsmuir. "In the last few years, we have had far more applications than we could accommodate and in 2007 and 2009 we had to apply a formula to cut back numbers.

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The SHIFT2010 conference is being held during the prestigious Food&Hotel Asia show, 20-23 April 2010, the premier sourcing platform for thousands of food and hospitality trade buyers in Asia. It is a spectacular showcase of the latest products, services and technologies from market leaders, FHA addresses the procurement needs of trade buyers and provides an abundance of networking opportunities for Asia’s food and hospitality industry.

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For the next issue of VIV Asia, in March 2011, significantly more product presentations and exibitors are expected

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Racecard's for Cheltenham

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VF 608 - Top vacuum filler technology for everyone. The performance and handling of the VF 608 vacuum filler has been tailored exactly to the needs of small-scale producers. The generally acknowledged high-end technology by handtmann has been specially adapted to small-scale producers with great product diverstiy and small-batch production. Feed system and drive technology from the world-reowned VF 600 generation make the VF 608 the logical step towards the small-scale production of the future.

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FOODEX Start date: 21/March/2010 End date: 24/March/2010 Web site: http://www.foodex.co.uk/page/home.html Stand No: W006 Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Chetneham They are ready for the off

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Today’s consumers are increasingly aware of the origin and safety of food products. To accommodate this, the European Community introduced on January 1 2010 a new regulation, IUU (illegal, unreported, unregulated), to prevent illegally harvested seafood into the EU.

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Northumberland breeders Peter and James Weightman of the Hallfield herd based at Peterlee secured the leading price of 7,000gns at the early spring show and sale for the Blonde Society at Carlisle.

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Meat and Livestock Commercial Services Ltd (MLCSL) has announced that the Parker family owned Randall Parker Foods has signed up for its carcass classification service, meaning that MLCSL now classifies more than 80% of the cattle slaughtered in Britain each year

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Chapter Twenty. The Irish Boys. Prior to 1954 most of the Irish Cattle went live to England, to be killed in English Abattoirs. The two main reasons, bad refrigeration and being killed in England could be sold as English Beef at premium prices. The main shippers were the Goodman Family, the Horgan Family, the Purcell Family and the Faheys and The Mollihan Brothers. The English Boys would come to Dublin Saleyards, each Monday and buy cattle. Tom Swires of Leeds, Willy Parker Leicester, Weston Brothers, City Meats, Monks of Birmingham, to name but a few. This was a man called Seamus Coonahan who was a character and a half. Seamus was a good Dealer and good Operator.

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Sainsbury’s is to launch “the UK's first supermarket bakery college” and Asda has announced a new ‘young retailer programme’ as grocers and manufacturers are expected to boost training budgets. The bakery college, in Wellingborough, has been created by Sainsbury’s in partnership with flour supplier Whitworth at one of the supplier’s sites. The college aims to speed up NVQ training so it takes half the time in order to send more qualified bakers to stores.

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Morrison's yesterday hailed "another good year" with profits climbing 21 per cent and sales hitting record levels as the UK's fourth-largest supermarket chain "continues its journey from national to nationwide", writes Peter Ranscombe The group opened 43 outlets in the year, taking its total to 425, and it plans to keep expanding its store base.

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The Parker family owned business of Weddel Swift is now offering meat to its butcher and catering clients on line

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The New York Times dedicated a long piece to the quality and rising pre-eminence of Uruguayan beef in world markets, contrary to what is happening in neighbouring Argentina, still considered “king of the best beef in the world” Cows outnumber Uruguayans more than three to one in a country where about 80% of the land is used for cattle grazing.

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Multivac, Inc., a leading global supplier of packaging solutions for food, medical, consumer and industrial products, has launched its new corporate website at www.multivac.com.

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An Idaho man has been charged with writing bad checks exceeding $200,000 for cattle he received from a Snyder County farm.

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A recent decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to scrap a national animal identification system could seriously hinder U.S. veterinarians' ability to track diseased animals and prevent the spread of those diseases -- diseases that could spread to humans and cost U.S. farmers millions of dollars.

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c/o Pidyon Shvuyim Fund National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education 824 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY (718) 735-0200 Sholom Rubashkin Supporters Blast Justice Department for Oppressive Detention Continue Call for Release while Rubashkin Awaits Sentencing

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Lawyers for Sholom Rubashkin last Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his conviction in the District Court of Northern Iowa, in hopes that the highest court in the country will find reason to revisit the case. The lawyers filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, in which the Supreme Court agrees to review a lower court's case.

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Indiana's plan to lay off some meat inspectors to save money and reduce the time inspectors spend with small, independent processors has the industry and farmers fearing it could hurt what has been a growing industry.

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Come out and enjoy your Spring Break with us at Mill Creek Ranch Resort. Whether it be 1 day or 7 days, we will make sure you and your family have the time of your life!

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Kenny Knight, Lyons, Kan., was presented with the Stockman of the Year Award by the Livestock and Meat Industry Council during the council’s 40th annual Stockmen’s Dinner on March 4, 2010. The award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the livestock and meat industry. The annual Stockmen’s Dinner precedes Cattlemen’s Day, an event that brings together students, staff and others in the industry who have been an asset to animal agriculture and associated industries.

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The important role that Welsh Lamb plays in the Welsh economy has been highlighted by new figures. Statistics show that the value of Welsh Lamb exported in 2009 soared to nearly £110 million pounds, a rise of almost £20 million from 2008.

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Farmers Union president Mr Silas Hungwe has urged farmers to diversify their projects to counter production shortfalls that are likely to be experienced in this season's maize crop

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