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The so-called Weak Flesh probe launched Friday by Brazilian police into the alleged bribing of federal inspection agents to clear the sale and export adulterated meat has taken a toll on the world’s largest exporter of beef and chicken.
JBS and BRF launch massive media campaigns to stave off impact.
The Brazilian ag sector is trying to minimize damage both at home and in export markets after allegations of corruption are raised against meat inspectors and accusations of allowing rotten meat into the marketplace.
President Michel Temer called Brazil’s scandal over the sale of expired meat an embarrassment Tuesday as more countries suspended some meat imports from the South American nation.
EU seeking information from Brazil and may schedule meeting. While President Temer calls emergency meeting in Brasilia for diplomats.
Major importers have imposed restrictions on Brazilian meat.
So much for the winter blues. It’s been so balmy across part of the U.S. that Americans have been firing up their grills at a time that’s usually better suited to sipping hot cocoa.
“I hate the stuff,” says a butcher and author of a new cookbook dedicated to beef. He’s not alone.
A Cody, Wyo. company is seeking about $940,000 in financial help from the state so it can beef up sales of its jerky products.
A South Dakota judge has dismissed ABC anchor Diane Sawyer from a defamation lawsuit over the network’s reports on a beef product that critics dubbed “pink slime.”
After more than 200 cattle died on a feedlot in Nebraska, the cattle feeder who was responsible for the animals’ care has pleaded not guilty to 40 charges he faces in the alleged livestock neglect case.
National Beef, the fourth largest beef packer in the U.S., has announced that the company’s purchase of Iowa Premium has been finalized.
Cattle and beef markets have decreased from April highs with uncertainty in a variety of factors weighing on markets the past month.
Beyond Meat makes plant-based protein and Bill Gates is an investor.
The past several weeks of trading in the fed cattle markets have shown that basis is becoming more important to many than the actual cash price.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture also reported a record amount of beef in freezers or cold storage last week.
Beef has a ‘rough start’ in 2017 as wholesale prices drop.
What is going on with the price spread between retail beef and foodservice?
The owner of a now-closed beef-jerky maker is being sued by the federal government for firing an employee who tried to call 911 to help a co-worker with a severed thumb.
USDA has increased its forecast of U.S. beef production.
U.S. feedlots unexpectedly increased the number of cattle purchased in December compared with a year earlier, a government report showed.
Cattle slaughtering in the U.K. dropped to the lowest level since at least 1970 last year, as herd sizes declined to the smallest in decades, the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board said.
Can changes to a cow’s energy intake during the second trimester enhance the quality of beef her offspring will produce? What effect might it have on the reproductive ability of the cow’s offspring?
Packers came into the week bidding aggressively and the result was another week of record-high prices.
Change and volatility are commonplace in today’s agricultural markets, and those trends have been no different in cattle marketing for nearly 20 years.
The live cattle market should begin creeping up the next several weeks as it searches for its fall high which precedes the holiday season.
CEO steps down, then says he’s retaking role hours later.
With three-quarters of 2016 nearly in the books, we see continued expansion of the beef cow heard and continued increases in beef production.
It is abnormal for live cattle prices to continue finding new summer lows this late in the summer.