http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk This is the RSS syndication feed for MeatTradeNewsDaily.co.uk. Pig producers have been protesting this week about their business losses as pig prices have failed to cover rising feed prices. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/240513/france___pig_farmers_protesting_again.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT French pork producers have announced they will have a major protest next week Tuesday after having organised several smaller protests in the last couple of weeks. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150513/france___problems_in_the_pork_industry.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Administrators appointed to pig processor, GAD, are investigating all options to save the company http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/130513/france___pork_processor_in_trouble.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Stéphane Le Foll sign health cooperation agreement that opens business opportunities for French food and agricultural sectors. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/060513/france___more_farm_goods_to_china_.aspx 5mpublishing Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT French Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forest Stéphane Le Foll and Minister of State for the food Guillaume Garot have set out a development plan for the future for French poultry sector following a meeting with the poultry industry last week. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/290413/france___big_plans_for_the_poultry_industry_.aspx 5mpublishing Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT A study has revealed the challenges of further processing pork with boar taint to overcome the smell. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150413/france___you_cannot_prevent_boar_taint_ask_any_slaughterman_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT In the absence of any legal sanction, the French charcuterie industry federation FICT and the retailers' federation FCD have opposed proposals from the meat industry syndicate SNIV-SNCP to make country of origin labelling compulsory on pig meat and processed foods. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/160413/france___labelling_pork_.aspx 5mpublishing Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT According to animal scientists, farmers could further protect the environment by breeding chickens with larger digestive organs. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/190413/france___poultry_and_the_environment_.aspx 5mpublishing Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT The French Agriculture Ministry has set out a three pronged attack to restore confidence in the French pig meat sector, following a round table meeting with pig sector representatives, writes Chris Harris. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/190413/france___saving_the_pig_industry_.aspx 5mpublishing Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Nucleus has successfully exported 450 pigs to Rushan Dongfa Pig Breeding Co. (Huanshan). http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/010413/france___everyman_and_his_dog_sending_pigs_to_china.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT After being investigated for horse meat, French meat business Spanghero this week found itself back in hot water. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/270313/france____tons_of_british_meat_seized_by_health_authorities_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Production of beef and lamb fell five per cent in 2012 having a knock on effect on consumption, which fell two per cent, according to Bord Bia. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/210313/france___drop_in_beef_and_lamb_imports.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), organiser of the conference, has received the full support of the European Commission, which has placed the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on top of its priority list. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/210313/france___time_to_deal_with_animal_feed_monkeys_pumping_drugs_.aspx oie.com Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Production of beef and lamb fell 5 per cent in 2012 having a knock on effect on consumption, which fell 2 per cent. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/200313/france___drop_in_beef_and_lamb_imports_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) organises the first Global Conference on the prudent use of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/180313/france___solidarity_against_antimicrobial_resistance.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT The rumpus in Europe over horsemeat sold as beef is bringing a bonanza for France’s 700 surviving horse butchers, who are suddenly piquing consumer curiosity after years of decline. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050313/france___real_horse_meat_butchers_.aspx irishexaminer.com Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT SIMA exhibition, Paris. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/110313/france___sima_exhibition_paris.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Opening the Salon International de l'Agriculture in Paris, the head of state declared: "These last few days have seen a lot of questions asked and, not to put it more strongly, fraud, because there was no labelling. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050313/france___a_call_for_honest_meat_labelling_.aspx 5mpublishing Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT According to BPEX's Export Bulletin for week 7, France reports that 2012 was a record year for pig prices. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/250213/france___pork_trade_in_good_shape_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Billed as the largest farm show in France, the 50th International Agricultural Fair in Paris opened its doors to visitors on Saturday. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/010313/france___farm_show_in_paris_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT A group of 10 delegates from supermarket chain Intermarché – the largest supermarket chain in Europe with 1,800 stores – and processor SVA Jean Rozé spent three days visiting processors, producers and butchers. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/180213/france___the_love_of_english_lamb_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT The agriculture biotechnology giant Monsanto Company has been found guilty by a French court of chemically poisoning 47 year-old Paul Francois, a French grain farmer. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/210213/france___bringing_american_gangsters_to_heel_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT The French government has allowed the company at the heart of the horsemeat scandal to restart part of its meat production operation. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/250213/france___england_does_nothing_while_france_get_back_to_busiess.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT The French government has allowed the company at the heart of the horsemeat scandal to restart part of its meat production operation. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/250213/france___french_government_gey_real_on_horse_meat_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Five French pig-slaughter companies were fined a total of 4.5 million euros ($6.1 million) for agreeing to reduce hog purchases from breeders with the goal of cutting prices they pay, France’s antitrust regulator said. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/210213/france___price_fixing_in_the_pork_market_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT British Government "Cover Up" continues as we report; Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA) said six horses slaughtered in the UK that tested positive for the drug phenylbutazone were exported to France and have entered the human food chain. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/140213/france___contaminated_british_horsemeat_exported_to_france_for_human_consumption.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT The French Government did in 4 days what Defra, LMCNI could not do in 5 weeks as we told you they would, as they charged 3 men today over the horsemeat fiasco. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/180213/france___the_french_are_the_only_country_capable_of_solving_horsemeat_scandal_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT France on Thursday pinned much of the blame for Europe's horse scandal on a French firm that allegedly sold 750 tonnes of horsemeat as beef that ended up in millions of ready-to-eat meals sold across the continent. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/210213/france___the_only_government_honestenough_to_handle_horsemeat_sacandal.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT French meat processing company Spanghero knowingly sold horsemeat labelled as beef, the French government has said. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/200213/france___french_officials_sort_out_horsemeat_fiasco_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Around 170 delegates from the pig production chain attended a conference in St Brieuc, France, in early October, on the imminent ban on castration in the European Union. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/010213/france___castration_only_cure_for_boar_taint_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT The meat industry organisation has written to the president of Inaporc calling on the agency to defend the words "born, raised, slaughtered and processed" following by the country of origin on labelling of pork products when it is making representations in Europe. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/120213/france___cool_meat_laws_demanded_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT One of the food companies at the centre of the horse meat controversy is considering legal action against its suppliers. Findus is looking into legal action as an internal investigation "strongly suggests" the contamination "was not accidental". http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100213/france___findus_is_looking_into_legal_action_contamination_quotwas_not_accidentalquot.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT According to a Feb. 9, 2013, CNN report, France’s Findus is planning to file a legal complaint on Monday against the unnamed Romanian business responsible for the horsemeat scandal. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100213/france___frances_findus_is_planning_to_file_a_legal_complaint_on_monday.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Another meat-based product containing – in some cases 100 percent horsemeat instead of ground beef – has added to the challenges faced by the Ireland’s Food Safety Authority, which is already looking into unlabeled horsemeat products sold by two processors. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150213/france___findus_selling__horse_meat_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT The European Union may drive a recovery in world wheat production in 2013-14, the United Nations said, even as it lifted by 20m tonnes estimates for the latest global grains harvest too. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150213/france___no_grain_shortage_this_year_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Senior government ministers have welcomed news that Japan will lift beef age limits to include cattle under 31 months of age, the Council of Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Affairs Ministry of Health confirmed this week. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050213/france___beef_for_japan_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT A delegation of Egyptian food safety inspectors are touring French meat processing plants this week as part of the process for the renewal of beef exports to Egypt. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/280113/france___beef_for_egypt_if_they_can_pay_.aspx 5mpublishing Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT The FNSEA said that the Commission has decided to suddenly halve the refunds which is just adding to the burden on the sector that has seen the financial crisis of the Doux group and the decommissioning of some plants that has been decided by the courts. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/300113/france___poultry_farmers_spit_the_dummy_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Societe Generale, one of the most bearish commentators on crops ahead of the autumn drop in prices, renewed a forecast of falling corn futures, saying that demand from livestock feeders was not as resilient as it appeared. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/300113/france___we_have_forgotten_more_about_farming_than_the_us_ever_knew_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT French farmers held protests across the country on Wednesday, including a pre-dawn street blockade near the farm ministry in Paris, to attack what they see as burdensome environmental regulations linked to European Union targets on water quality. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/230113/france___farmers_and_the_environment_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The European Union's plan to cut in half export subsidies for poultry meat have raised concerns about the viability of some French poultry firms, according to Reuters. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/250113/france___poultry_subsidies_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT A novel software tool will help pig farms better determine what are the effects of the nutrition fed at their swine farms. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/140113/france___raising_pigs.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT In an article published in Frontiers in Microbiology on the 20th of December, she explores using a next-generation real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) system to discover specific gene targets that indicate the presence of dangerous foodborne pathogens. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/020113/france____of_e_coli_problems_from_quotdirty_human_habitsquot.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT With the cost of feed soaring, a period of high French pork prices coming to an end and welfare and environmental constraints, farmers and analysts in the core French pig farming region of Brittany expect their sector to downsize severely in the coming months. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/010113/france___pig_farmers_cry_wolf_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT With the cost of feed soaring, a period of high French pork prices coming to an end and welfare and environmental constraints, farmers and analysts in the core French pig farming region of Brittany expect their sector to downsize severely in the coming months. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/241212/france___pig_industry__problems_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Weltec Biopower have signed a contract with a French based project developer Methaneo to build a a plant in western France , which will use chicken maure to produce electricity to feed the French grid. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/121212/france___jens_albartus_ceo_of_weltec_biopower__.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Irish Beef has been selected as a key ingredient by the organisers of the prestigious French culinary competition, Bocuse d’Or, writes Declan Fennell, Meat Division, Bord Bia – Irish Food Board. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/031212/france___irish_beef_at_its_best_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Between May 2011 and May 2012, there was a decline of about one per cent in the French pig herd. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/071212/france___increasing_pork_production_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT As part of the preparation of the European Council on 22 and 23 November 2012, the President of the European Council circulated a summary of the annual financial framework meeting to member states. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/231112/france___perhaps_the_strongest_farm_lobby_in_europe_.aspx 5mpublishing Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT French government eyes ailing pig sector with concern. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/221112/france___the_pig_industry_.aspx Pig World Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT