Another week of gains for live cattle futures, potentially putting them in an overbought situation.

A top Brazilian official has declared that the South American bloc Mercosur is ready to close the trade agreement with the EU, but the talks have broken down again due to the unwillingness of the European Commission.

An academic study concludes that even a full liberalisation of ruminant meat trade between the EU and New Zealand would have very minor consequences for the industry on both sides.

Argentina’s beef industry has concluded a year of recovery by sending fresh beef to the US for the first time in seventeen years

Driven by the opening of new markets and China's authorization of more Brazilian slaughterhouses, beef exports from Brazil will set a new record in 2019.

Keeping a promise made earlier this year, the fast-food giant McDonald's announced Tuesday (Dec. 11) it has adopted a policy to reduce the use of medically important antibiotics across 85% of its global beef supply chain.

Futures continue to have some underpinning in solid demand with hopes for China to return to the market.

The USDA launched the second round of trade mitigation payments on December 17 to farmers hit by the US-China trade war.

The European Livestock and Meat Trades Union, known by its French acronym, UECBV, has backed the request by the US National Pork Producers Council to allow lactic and acetic acid rinses to be used to decontaminate pig cuts and carcasses in slaughterhouses.

Chinese companies Yingzi Technology and Yangxiang alongside Dutch company Nedap have entered into a strategic partnership with the aim of forming data services and applications in pig farming.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has handed down a positive opinion on the controversial use of lactic and acetic acid rinses in slaughterhouses as decontaminants on pork carcasses and cuts, concluding that treatment “does not raise any safety concern.”

US firm Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has secured EU approval to buy French animal nutrition specialist Neovia in a deal worth EUR1.535 billion (USD1.78 billion).

Broiler supplies continue to stay ahead demand and dark meat supplies remain competitive on the export market.

US firm Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has secured EU approval to buy French animal nutrition specialist Neovia in a deal worth EUR1.535 billion (USD1.78 billion).

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) are warning that the EU’s progress in tackling zoonotic diseases – those transmitted from animals and animal products to humans – has stalled and the bloc needs to step up efforts to combat the problem.

Russia should soon be able to export beef to Turkey after the two countries this week agreed on veterinary certificates.

Policy-makers and retailers have underlined the potential of blockchain as a “promising way forward” for the agri-food sector, but farm representatives warned that “it is not a panacea that can solve all problems”.

Retail giant Costco says it is working with its meat and poultry suppliers to restrict use of antibiotics that are medically important to people.

An academic study concludes that even a full liberalisation of ruminant meat trade between the EU and New Zealand would have very minor consequences for the industry on both sides.

Ukraine's largest tomato paste processor Agrofusion has managed to increase the flow of tomato paste to Europe by 30 times, since the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The transition of the European sheepmeat market towards the traditional spring price uplift is already under way, with pre-Christmas demand underpinning prices in the UK in particular.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Food Price Index hit its lowest level since May 2016 in November, falling 1.3% on-month and 8.5% on-year to 160.8 points.

Swedish consumers are cutting down on the total amount of meat they eat each year – but a shift to home-grown products means the trend is doing no harm to domestic producers.

India has agreed to open its market to British sheep meat in a deal that could generate just over GBP1 million a year.