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Hogs Back Brewery, owned by Rupert Thomson, has acquired Mondo, a UK beer maker, in a pre-pack administration deal. The undisclosed transaction secures the future of Mondo's brands, brewery, and taproom in Battersea. The deal will allow Mondo to invest in sales and marketing, and Thomson will become chairman of the new Mondo Beer Ltd. This acquisition comes at a challenging time for smaller brewers in the UK, who have been facing pressures on costs. [Extracted from the article]

Germany's meat production decreased by 4% in 2023, marking the seventh consecutive year of decline since its peak in 2016. The number of pigs slaughtered decreased by 6.8%, while the number of cattle slaughtered remained almost stagnant. However, the volume of processed beef increased slightly by 0.6%, and the quantity of poultry meat processed increased by 1.4%. Data on meat consumption in Germany for 2023 has not yet been published. [Extracted from the article]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded three grants totaling more than $1.4 million for research on health issues in cattle and swine. Schoonmaker's team includes Theresa Casey, associate professor of animal sciences; Timothy Johnson, assistant professor of animal sciences; Rafael Neves of veterinary medicine; Christina Ferreira, metabolomics analyst, Bindley Bioscience Center; Jyothi Thimmapuram, bioinformatics core director; and Bethany Funnell, clinical associate professor of veterinary medicine. [Extracted from the article]

Laursen said: "Abattoir workers, fortunately, have a reputation for being stable and reliable workers, and after the dismissals in Sæby six months ago, almost 60 per cent of our former employees have found new work, but it doesn't happen automatically", he added. Laursen said: "What is so frustrating about this situation is that our employees' performance has been exemplary, but in our industry, it is imperative that the abattoirs are run with very high-capacity utilisation, because otherwise it simply becomes too expensive to slaughter every single pig. Keywords: Meat; News; Danish Crown EN Meat News Danish Crown N.PAG N.PAG 1 04/25/23 20230420 NES 230420 Danish Crown is to shut an abattoir in Denmark due to a declining supply of pigs for slaughter. [Extracted from the article]

The article provides an overview of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act, that mandates price reporting for cattle, boxed beef, and swine and allowed U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish mandatory price reporting for lamb purchases. Topics include current marketing practices related to price; livestock transaction data; and expanding definitions and reporting on certain swine attributes.

The UK arm of meat processor Pilgrim's Pride has also set out plans to close two pig slaughterhouses, putting 675 jobs at risk. Keywords: Meat; Company News; Homepage; News; Danish Crown EN Meat Company News Homepage News Danish Crown N.PAG N.PAG 1 10/11/22 20221007 NES 221007 Meat group Danish Crown has pared its plans for potential job job cuts at two local slaughterhouses. [Extracted from the article]

Some of the Tönnies employees affected by the job cuts have been offered alternative positions at another pig abattoir in Rheda, while Tönnies said it has "made use of natural fluctuation and not renewed some expiring contracts". Keywords: Meat; Company News; Homepage; News; Tönnies EN Meat Company News Homepage News Tönnies N.PAG N.PAG 1 10/03/22 20220927 NES 220927 Meat processor Tönnies has cut hundreds of jobs since June at two pig plants in its home market of Germany as slaughter numbers continue to "slump". Germany's Tönnies joins job cuts at European pig processors. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: Meat; Company News; Homepage; News; Danish Crown EN Meat Company News Homepage News Danish Crown N.PAG N.PAG 1 09/20/22 20220916 NES 220916 Danish Crown is cutting jobs at two slaughterhouses as higher input costs reduce the number of pigs for culling. Meat, Company News, Homepage, News, Danish Crown. [Extracted from the article]

Commercial cow-calf production systems that require significant inputs of labor and equipment per cow are increasingly unprofitable. She said the risk management series will help cow-calf producers assess whether LRP is a good fit for their operation, or learn more. Ifft, an associate professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University, has released a nine-part series and historic performance decision aid about price risk management considerations and strategies for cow-calf producers. [Extracted from the article]

HPAI could result in some reduction in broiler production, but export bans could result in more broiler meat being directed to the domestic market, thereby increasing domestic consumption even more. Declining beef and pork production may offset increased broiler production and lead to a decrease in total meat production in 2022. [Extracted from the article]

An appendix is presented which focuses on the North American Livestock Trade and the cattle and hog imports of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Keywords: Environmental; Meat and Seafood; News; Corporate responsibility; Danish Crown; Homepage Top Section EN Environmental Meat and Seafood News Corporate responsibility Danish Crown Homepage Top Section N.PAG N.PAG 1 10/19/21 20211014 NES 211014 Denmark-based meat giant Danish Crown has dropped its "climate-controlled pig" labelling on pork products after criticism from environmental groups and resistance from supermarket chains. Danish Crown drops "climate-controlled pig" label after "greenwashing" row, supermarket pushback In online information Danish Crown has provided on the label, the company says the label "gives the consumer a guarantee that the climate footprint of pork has been reduced by at least 25% per year since 2005". [Extracted from the article]

The cull, predicted by The National Farmers Union (NFU) and The National Pig Association (NPA), could result in shortages of pork and pork products on supermarket shelves, they suggest. Keywords: Frozen; Meat and Seafood; Refrigerated; News; Brexit and the food industry EN Frozen Meat and Seafood Refrigerated News Brexit and the food industry N.PAG N.PAG 1 10/05/21 20210930 NES 210930 The UK government has been warned it is facing a mass cull of pigs because of a shortage of butchers. [Extracted from the article]

The most recent data on the sale of medically important antibiotics for food-producing animals is the 2018 Summary Report released in December 2019. Despite the uptick, FDA data suggest overall use in 2018 of medically important antibiotics in livestock was still the second-lowest, for the year, since 2009 when this metric for antibiotic sales to livestock producers was first reported. [Extracted from the article]

William Dean "Bill" Fleming of Eagan, Minn., former National Hog Farmer editor, passed away May 13 at the age of 91. Fleming became the third editor of National Hog Farmer, taking the helm in 1980 and staying until 1993. [Extracted from the article]

UK-based food manufacturer Cranswick said it has acquired the Buckle family's share of a pig processing joint venture set up in 2018, White Rose Farms. London-listed Cranswick, a predominately meat-processing business, is also taking over the pig farming and rearing operations of the Buckle family, as well as their 50% share in the JV, the company said in a statement today (11 February). [Extracted from the article]

UK-based food manufacturer Cranswick, which specialises in meat production, hasacquired locally-based business Packington Pork. Cranswick said the transaction increases its self-sufficiency in UK pigsprocessed to more than 25%, "securing direct control over a significant part ofits supply chain for premium pigs, reinforcing its commitment to developing asustainable and traceable farm-to-fork operation". [Extracted from the article]

Several charts are presented which provide agricultural data and estimates for the U.S. from 2010-2011 including the annual crop yield and production, the inventory of hogs and pigs, and the prices received by farmers for crops being sold.

Several charts are presented which depicts the hog and pigs reports in South Dakota including Hogs & Pigs September 1 Inventory Number, Commercial Slaughter, Red Meat Production, and Stocks in Cold Storage.

On April 6, 2005, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) made a final determination that imports of live Canadian hogs are not materially injuring the U.S. hog industry. The ITC's negative determination culminates investigations requested in March 2004 by U.S. pork producers under U.S. antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) laws, and means that no import duty order will be imposed. The ITC's decision came despite an earlier U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) final determination that producers/exporters have sold live swine from Canada at less than fair value. DOC also earlier announced its final CVD determination that countervailable subsidies are not being provided to Canadian producer/exporters, ending the CVD investigation. This report will be updated if significant developments ensue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]