Do pigs fly? China pork prices take wing...

Hog prices today, pork price May 31, 2016 hog prices nationwide latest market forecast charts

The image says it all with a pig flying above clouds. Anyone who knows China will know how sensitive high pork prices are. I will never forget seeing the lines of people in front of a Carrefour store in Shanghai waiting to buy pork. Above link is translated by Google.

the text in brief:
"[Hog prices today, pork price May 31, 2016 hog prices nationwide latest market forecast Chart] Today, the national average price outside three yuan 21.24 yuan / kg, and yesterday the national average price of 21.24 yuan outside the three yuan / kg unchanged, compared with the previous week 23 year 21.05 yuan / kg increase 0.19 yuan / kg, up 0.90%; today's pig is easy to index 161.53, up 0.06 pigs easily index down 161.59, down "

Lamb production and the CRC

The Sheep and Lamb CRC has produced a recent video on lamb cutting.

another useful link:
http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/meat.php

Sustainable beef - Walmart expands monitoring system to 100% of the beef sold in Brazil

"The certainty of making the purchase of a quality meat and produced within social and environmental criteria, such as deforestation and slave labor, is already a reality for customers of Walmart Brazil. The company, which is the first and only retailer to monitor 100% of the meat coming from Amazon, today announced the expansion of its monitoring program satellite beef to Brazil."Since the beginning of the year, we monitor 100% of the farms that supply meat to refrigerators with plants in the Amazon. After this successful experience, we will expand our program to the whole country, "announces Adriana Muratore, commercial vice president and marketing of Walmart Brazil.A pioneer in the Brazilian retail market, the Monitoring System and Risk Management of Walmart Beef is the result of five years of work and an investment of R $ 1 million. Its differential integrate into a single system satellite data to map deforestation, indigenous lands and protected areas, in addition to information from public lists of embargoed and slave labor areas. The tool is proprietary, developed by AgroTools."

Walmart Brazil sustainable beef

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Danish Crown reports first half 2015-2016

I tend to agree with the Danish Crown motto on the front page of their annual report.

Danish Crown one of the global pork majors reported recently and seemed relatively satisfied with results.
Danish Crown posted a net profit of DKK 819 million for the first six months of the 2015/16 financial year.
Jais Valeur, new President and CEO of the global food group which is domiciled in Randers, Denmark, but which has activities and sales in more than 130 countries, is reasonably satisfied with the results:
- The retail market is extremely competitive, it is dominated by ever-larger chains, and it is characterised by an increasing focus on discount products and a constant demand from consumers for lower prices. This is putting pressure both on livestock farmers and on the prices paid to farmers in general. Seen in this light, posting results which are marginally below those for the prior-year period is satisfactory, says Jais Valeur.

http://www.danishcrown.com/News-and-Press/News/Satisfactory-financial-results-despite-tough-competition.aspx

USA Government Accountability Office on the meat industry 2016

Covers meat industry workplace health and safety and issues with hazards and injuries as well as recommendations to Department of Labor.

Additional Data Needed to Address Continued Hazards in the Meat and Poultry Industry

The basis of Australian cattle prices - the unit price of exported beef.

Australian beef export earnings have climbed in recent years according to quarterly ABS figures. The important thing is what is the unit value or the effective price per kilogram. This in fact is the starting point for working out what can be paid for cattle. We have a lot of figures produced but far too little are actually used to look at vital metrics. The trend is only gradually up over a period of 16 years. They are now under the trend value of AUD$5.50 per kilogram FAS port.