Beef
Soaring global demand for beef has helped the value of British red meat exports reach a record high of £1.77 billion in 2024).
Pig/Poultry
The first half of 2024 has seen the lowest level of UK pork exports in nine years, according to the...
Government
The NPA has said Dover Port Health Agency needs £4-5 million to properly resource its inspection teams to enable them to confiscate illegally imported meat.
Agri-Business
UK pig meat production has fallen 2.5% year-on-year, with production in the first quarter of 2024 totalling 227,000t.
Global demand for lamb has boosted UK red meat exports, the Agriculture and Horticulture Board...
The UK’s National Pig Association (NPA) has said that 57t of illegally imported pigmeat being...
Exporters and members of the export team at AHDB returned to SIAL in Shanghai to showcase British pork this year.
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is seeking more pork export opportunities...
AHDB has said that the latest data on UK pig meat production supports industry commentary on "tight supplies of slaughter pigs".
AHDB has today (Monday, January 23) launched its 'Mix up Midweek with Pork' marketing campaign aimed at boosting demand for pork products.
Between January and June this year, more than half of the 108,294t of pig meat exported to non-EU countries went to China, the AHDB has said.
Increases in the export value of pigmeat and infant formula have helped drive August EU agri-food exports up compared to the same period last year.
China is expected to increase its pork imports by 30% this year in order to cover the supply gap in 2016, according to Chenjun Pan, Senior Animal Protein Analyst at Rabobank.
China doubled the its pork imports for the month of March to 114,700t compared to the corresponding month in 2015, AHDB Pork has reported
A supply shortage will continue to drive the pork import in demand in China, supporting the recovery of the global pork market, according to the latest Rabobank Global Pork Quarterly.
Pigmeat consumption is on the rise in the EU, with the average person consuming 40.9kg of pigmeat in 2015, figures from AHDB show.
EU
Farmers protested today in Brussels as EU Agriculture Ministers met to come up with solutions to the crises in the dairy and pig sectors.
EU Agriculture Ministers are meeting in Brussels today with discussions on the current crisis in the dairy and pigmeat sectors to be discussed.
Other
The pigmeat Private Storage Aid Scheme (PSA) open since 4 January 2016 has been closed.
EU Agriculture Ministers are set to examine the difficulties in the pigmeat sector at its Council meeting next week.
World News
Brazilian meat production is expected to continue its fast growth in the coming decade, according to the FAO.
As a consequence of the below average pork prices, the first signs of a decline in the reproductive herd can be seen, according to the European Commission.
The drop in the Chinese pig herd will impact the entire global pork market from now and into 2016, according to Rabobank.
