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Low arrival weight turns respiratory health into a procurement and management variable. APHIS has released the second report from its national 2021 feedlot study. The data, collected in 2020 from U.S. feedlots holding 50 or more …
Routine blood profiles may provide an additional signal on pig feed efficiency, but they are not yet a stand-alone selection tool. An IRTA study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science combined data from five trials involving …
A bacteriophage targeting Escherichia coli from raw meat shows potential as a biocontrol tool, but not yet as a practice-ready solution. A study published in Scientific Reports collected 60 swab samples from raw red meat in …
Denmark is turning poultry biosecurity from a recommendation into a verifiable routine. On 6 November, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration raised the avian-influenza threat level from medium to high. From Monday, 9 …
Goat meat gains domestic market access when the cut and eating occasion become visible. Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA), together with retailer Drakes, has launched a campaign in South Australia and Queensland. Timed around …
Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Have we already become too full? When Steve Jobs ended his Stanford speech in 2005 with “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”, he passed on an idea that has stayed with me ever since: remain hungry for what you …
A recent study on roasted beef links the evolution of specific lipid molecules more closely to the profile of odor-active compounds during heating. The work combined lipidomics and volatile analysis to follow changes across the …
The UK Government has formally adopted a long-term strategy to eradicate bovine tuberculosis in England by 2038. Announced on 5 November, it turns a previously presented direction into a policy implementation framework. For the …
The UK Agricultural Supply Chain Adjudicator has published its second annual report and explicitly includes the pig supply chain within its work. The authority encourages producers to raise contractual concerns confidentially and …
The FAO Meat Price Index fell 1.2% in October from September, while remaining slightly above its level a year earlier. International quotations for pig, ovine and bovine meat declined, whereas poultry prices were broadly stable. …
October rain in major Australian cattle regions sharply reduced livestock flows into saleyards and immediately affected processor supply. Meat & Livestock Australia reports that national cattle yardings fell 22.6% between …
In Australia, an applied project on bovine offal shows how the abattoir can become a more useful source of animal-health data. Charles Sturt University and P&P Optica, supported by MLA and Tey’s Australia, are developing a system …
A new Meat Science study focuses on a variable that many plants treat uniformly: chilling rate in relation to carcass weight. Its results indicate that light beef carcasses chill more rapidly than heavy ones under the same …
British pig-meat production continued to grow in the third quarter of 2026, but the driver changed. According to AHDB, pork output increased 2.8% year on year to 246,600 tonnes. The increase was smaller than in the first half, …
Paraná confirms its central role in Brazil’s chicken export trade. The state Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply reports that 1.8 million tonnes of chicken meat were exported between January and September 2026. That represents …