In 'dark-cutting beef', the animal undergoes long-term stress before slaughter. This stress may be from transportation, rough handling, changing weather conditions such as cold fronts, or anything that causes the animal to draw on its glycogen reserves before slaughter. At death, there is a limited amount of glycogen available to be converted to lactic acid, […]

A product that can support normal gastrointestinal functions, reduce the presence and impact of potentially harmful organisms and reduce the impact of heat stress sounds like a worthy investment to most producers. Yet, Dr. Steve Lerner of Chr. Hansen, argues that those are all things that cannot be measured or proven of any product or […]

Poor implanting techniques can significantly impact how well implants work and can result in poor gains, feed conversion and behaviour issues. Implant defects include improper site, abscessed, walled off, located in ear cartilage, missing due to abscess, pellets missing and/or bunched. There are multiple ways to prevent implanting errors for effective administration and thus optimum […]

 “The meat industry in Russia is actively developing. About 20 million Muslims live in Russia, which creates domestic demand for halal meat. Halal meat production in Russia is now 10% of Russia’s total production of poultry meat, beef and sheep meat.” The key markets for Russian halal exports are Saudi Arabia and the United Arab […]

Computed from average prices of four types of meat, weighted by world average export trade shares for 2014-2016. Quotations include two poultry products, three bovine meat products, three pig meat products, and two ovine meat products. Where more than one quotation exists for a given meat type, they are weighted by assumed fixed trade shares. […]

A new, eco-friendly range of collagen products made using traditionally low-value bovine inputs, such as hides and livers, will soon deliver benefits across the entire beef value chain. This world-first Certified Organic collagen skincare and supplements range is the highly anticipated result of a collaboration between MLA and Freeze Dry Industries (FDI), a manufacturer based […]

The upcoming ‘Wagyu Olympics’ on October 6 in Kagoshima Prefecture is expected to create much-needed buzz about the industry among consumers at home and abroad Dubbed the 'Wagyu Olympics' and hosted every five years, the five-day event is expected to welcome more than 400,000 visitors, all seeking to find out firsthand which cattle and variety […]

Drought conditions have wreaked havoc on cattle producers in varying locations and times over the past 2 years. The current drought conditions are some of the most widespread that we’ve seen over this period with about 80 per cent of the continental U.S. experiencing at least the lowest level of drought (D0). As shown in […]