Beef Industry News and Views
It isn’t just ourselves or our pets that have been getting bigger over the past couple of decades. Turns out, our beef cows have become gigantic too. How big? According to an excellent article by Melody Petersen in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “the average weight of a fattened steer sold to a packing plant [...]
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WITH prices of both beef and lamb bobbing along at unheard of levels, it might be thought that all was well with the Scottish red meat sector. However, Jim McLaren, chairman of Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), posted a few warnings yesterday. First of all, he pointed out that the record prime cattle price which averaged [...]
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UTSUNOMIYA, Tochigi Pref. — Agura Bokujo, a cattle farm business with operations nationwide, has filed for bankruptcy protection, blaming the crisis at the leaking Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which it says prompted a rise in canceled contracts after radioactive elements were detected in beef, a company executive said Wednesday. The Tokyo District Court [...]
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While it may seem churlish to try to draw comparisons between intensive poultry and the production of suckled calves, the meticulous attention to every facet of management and performance that underpins David Speller’s broiler unit near Chesterfield must prove that there are lessons to be learned by the beef sector. Working with a system over which [...]
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Brazilian meat giant JBS S.A. has announced that BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank) converted a large amount of JBS debt into equity, boosting the bank’s shareholdings in the company to 30.4% from 17% previously. “This capitalization does not in any way alter the controlling structure nor the administration of the company” Investor Relations Officer Jeremiah O’Callaghan [...]
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The federal government is no longer inspecting provincial meat-processing plants in B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba, leaving the provincial government with the duty of conducting inspections on their behalf. Scott Brown, with the Saskatchewan Agriculture Ministry, says they provincial government is making contact with the slaughter and processing plants in Saskatchewan. Eventually they’ll all be consulted [...]
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TOKYO (Kyodo) — The Japanese government on Monday ordered the suspension of all shipments of beef cattle from Iwate Prefecture after a number of cattle raised there were found to be contaminated with radioactive cesium. Iwate is the third prefecture, after Fukushima and Miyagi also in northeastern Japan, to be ordered by the central government [...]
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Cargill Beef announced on Friday that it would soon be recycling some of the material that comes out of the plant to harness it for energy. The $36 million project is expected to generate approximately 50 per cent of the energy the facility currently uses. Scott Entz, General Manager for the High River plant, said [...]
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Eblex has brought out a new brochure highlighting beef cuts prepared using seam butchery techniques, which has the potential to increase butchers’ and farmshops’ profit margins by up to 8%. The cuts, which are taken from the thick flank, topside, rump, feather and chuck roll, have proved popular in the foodservice and retail sector and [...]
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BEEF producers who sell their meat directly to consumers can boost their profit margins by up to eight per cent by following the step-by-step instructions in a new guide, says EBLEX. The Simply Delicious New Cuts publication profiles a range of beef cuts which are already doing well in the food service sector and increasing [...]
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