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British retail data show that the meat category is not moving as one. In the 12 weeks ending 9 August, total red-meat volume fell 1.5% year on year while spending rose 1.8%. Beef volume declined 2.0%, but expenditure increased …
A study published on 25 August addresses a technical issue that becomes more important as temperatures rise: protecting broiler performance and meat quality under cyclic heat stress. The authors tested an ethanolic extract from …
Brazil updated its Quali-SV audit page on 25 August. This is not a new product specification or a specific market opening. It is nevertheless a material reminder of how credibility for exported meat is built: through the …
A USDA complaint against a Florida livestock dealer is a reminder that meat-chain integrity also rests on basic commercial obligations: purchase, transfer of possession and timely payment. On 27 August, the Agricultural Marketing …
On 27 August, Perrys Field to Fork in Staffordshire held a children’s sausage- and pork-pie-making course. It may appear minor in industry news, but the format addresses a strategic question for artisan butchery: how to build …
The White House has temporarily expanded the U.S. tariff-rate quota for lean beef trimmings by 300,000 metric tons. Signed on August 26, the action applies solely to trimmings suitable for blending into ground beef and follows an …
Chile’s new official beef bulletin points to a diverging market development: in the first half of 2026, both cattle slaughter and beef production fell compared with the same period of 2025. At the same time, exports and imports …
“Organic” is not, by itself, a sufficient welfare indicator. That is the central finding of a systematic review published on August 25 in *Organic Agriculture*. The team analysed 86 comparative studies from commercial farms in …
Pig-welfare monitoring is often constrained by a practical contradiction: large groups are easy to film, but individual animals are difficult to follow reliably. A study published on August 24 in *Scientific Reports* introduces an …
Poultry production increasingly connects issues that were long treated separately: flock health, biosecurity, handling, welfare, efficiency and staff training. That interdependence is the focus of the U.S. “Live Production, …
The partial reopening of the Douglas, Arizona, port for Mexican cattle imports puts animal health back at the centre of North American meat-chain management. Livestock trade resumed there on August 24; all other southern-border …
Corporate greenhouse-gas inventories often compress very different emissions into a single carbon-dioxide-equivalent figure. A new paper published in Frontiers in Climate proposes that livestock and meat companies retain GWP100 …
Drought is forcing a tightly controlled review of some production rules for French origin-labelled and organic systems. On August 25, INAO reported that more than 400 individual derogations had been granted to around 4,000 organic …
Open visits to Veau d’Aveyron et du Ségala farms show that provenance communication becomes more convincing when it explains concrete practices. A recent visit to a farm in Sébrazac presented a suckler-calf system under the Label …
The opening of the new Mizzou Meat Market, integrated into the University of Missouri’s Michael L. Parson Meat Science Education and Training Lab, illustrates a model with clear relevance for meat craft and education: combining …