http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk This is the RSS syndication feed for MeatTradeNewsDaily.co.uk. The coldest winter in decades is causing blizzards in northern China and threatens electric power supplies in the south where the government is not used to dealing with such freezing temperatures, China media said Wednesday. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/160113/china____cattle_killed_by_cold_weather_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT INDONESIA'S largest livestock importer has taken the first steps towards moving to China, agreeing to build the country's largest feedlot. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/030113/china___indonesian_cattle_investment_.aspx weeklytimesnow.com.au Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Yum! Brands Inc, owner of the KFC fast-food chain, said fourth-quarter same-store sales fell more than projected in China as demand was hit by a government investigation into one of its former chicken suppliers. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/160113/china___kfc_bring_poultry_industry_into_disrepute_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT In south west China Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) has been confrimed in Guangyuan, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/china___fmd_back_.aspx oie.com Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT A Japanese trading firm aiming to sell Canadian pork into Asian markets has bought a third of a major Manitoba producer and packer. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/china___japanese_pork_investment_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Latest figures reveal that the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia emissions of China's livestock and poultry breeding in 2010 accounts for 45 per cent and 25 per cent of national total emissions respectively. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/china___western_media_jealousy_and_hate_campaign_againsy_china_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Following reforms to the market, China’s hog industry has developed rapidly, however, with social and economic transitions, China’s hog industry is facing challenges which might restrict long-term growth in production. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/140113/china___animal_feed_merchants_ready_to_pump_drugs_into_pigs_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT KFC parent company Yum Brands said Monday the company’s China division sales were hurt in the fourth quarter by adverse publicity associated with a government review of two of KFC China’s poultry suppliers. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/140113/china___dirty_american_habits_on_poultry_farms_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT TheStreet upgraded shares of ZHONGPIN INC. (NASDAQ: HOGS) to a buy rating in a report issued on Friday. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/070113/china___a_wild_bet_on_zhongpin_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The Shanghai Food and Drug Administration has launched an investigation into the levels of antibiotics in KFC chicken, according to The Telegraph.com. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/china___kfc_in_trouble_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Fan Jianjun points to a concrete pipe jutting from the lake bank. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/070113/china___western_press_attack_chinas_pig_farms_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT China will continue to drive agricultural commodity demand for the next decade, according to 350 food, beverage and agribusiness industry executives polled by Rabobank. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/070113/china___rabobank_telling_us_what_we_all_know_.aspx meatingplace Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Thursday morning news that China had cancelled private sales of 315,000 tonnes of soybeans scheduled to be shipped in the coming weeks depressed the grain and soybean complexes. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090113/china___usa_can_put_their_soy_where_the_monkey_puts_his_nuts_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT US fast food chain McDonald's has stopped sourcing chicken from Liuhe Group Co, one of the largest chicken suppliers in China, after it was named in the recent KFC scandal involving antibiotic fed chickens. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/070113/china___mcdonalds_poultry_supply_problems_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Last week, Chinese media reported that some poultry farmers in Shandong province had given their chickens excessive amounts of antibiotics, including amantadine and ribavirin, to help them survive in overcrowded chicken houses, triggering nationwide concern about food safety. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/020113/china___american_companies_tainting_the_poultry_industry_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Beijing will introduce tough laws to punish firms that flout food safety laws, the official Xinhua news agency reported, a significant move in China’s struggle to get its abysmal food safety record under control. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/china___us_companies_flaunting_drug_laws_.aspx irishexaminer.com Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT China is cozying up to the Arab world by focusing on increased halal meat exports, according to a report in the Washington Post. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040113/china___filling_void_in_middle_east_causeds_by_anti_us_sentiment_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Genesus continues to grow sales in China as its producers look to bring the latest genetic technology to their businesses and country. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/051212/china___genesus_farm_genetics___.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT China led world production of both duck meat and goose and guinea fowl meat in 2010, producing 68% and 95% of the total respectively, according to a recently released Agricultural Marketing Service report. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/311212/china___duck_meat_____.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT China’s Jiangsu province has been struck by Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD). http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/311212/china___fmd_confirmed_in_pigs_.aspx oie.com Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT China's continued influence on agricultural commodity demand and global economic growth, as well as growing weather extremes, are among the key issues facing the food and agriculture industries heading into 2013, according to a Rabobank poll released Monday. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/271212/china___get_used_to_it_chinma_holds_the_mortgage_on_the_usa_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The wholesale price of pork saw an increase of 0.7 per cent as compared with that of the previous week, with a year-on-year decrease of 7.3 per cent. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/030113/china___rise_in_meat_prices_.aspx 5mpublishing Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT A recent poll shows China's influence on agricultural commodity demand and global economic growth, along with increasing weather extremes, stand out as key issues for North American food, beverage and agribusiness in 2013, reported Rabobank. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/010113/china___been_there_done_that_someone_should_tell_rabobank_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Chinese officials will this week discuss improving compensation for expropriating farmland, state media said on Monday, in a move to help deal with growing rural anger about forced land seizures. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/010113/china___farm_compensation.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT China has lifted a ban on imports of poultry from Minnesota based on an avian flu scare in the state a year ago, according to a report by Bloomberg. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/311212/china___us_poultry_imports_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT In 2005, the Shanghai Institute for Food and Drug Control signed a contract with the China division of Yum Brands in Shanghai, which owns KFC, to provide third-party testing services for its raw materials and semi-finished products, the statement said. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/020113/china___american_drug_peddlers_in_animal_feed_industry_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The United States will push for China to ease restrictions on imports of U.S. meat and other products next week, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a news release. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/191212/china___americans_need_to_clean_up_their_meat_industry_.aspx meatingplace Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The government of Shandong province is investigating chicken farms following accusations of illegal use of antibiotics and hormones there, the province's food safety office said. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/281212/china___us_companies_and_unlawful_farm_drugs_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Food safety authorities in Qingdao City have closed two farms where workers were said to have fed chickens illegal drugs and 18 kinds of antibiotics to boost their growth. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/281212/china___us_farmers_need_rehab_treatment_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Yum! Brands Inc., KFC's parent company, has concealed 8 batches of tainted products, according to official materials from Shanghai's municipal food safety administration. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/281212/china___us_fast_food_dirty_habits_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT China’s Jiangsu province has been struck by Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD). http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/271212/china___fmd_confirmed_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM) and McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) said they are working with Chinese suppliers to ensure the safety of food they serve after China Central Television reported the companies may have sold chicken that had been indiscriminately fed antibiotics and growth hormones. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/271212/china___us_fast_food_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Representatives of the World's Poultry Science Association (WPSA) China Branch, the Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine (CAAV) and VNU Exhibitions Europe have signed the agreement regarding the Strategic Partnership for the organisation of the World's Poultry Congress (WPC) 2016 and VIV China 2016 in Beijing. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150812/china___viv_china__.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Foot-and-mouth disease infections have been confirmed in livestock in China's eastern Jiangsu Province, the Ministry of Agriculture said Monday. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/251212/china___fmd_in_pigs_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Fast food giant KFC's Chinese subsidiary has vowed to cooperate with authorities investigating claims by state television that its chicken suppliers had injected banned substances and growth hormones in its poultry. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/271212/china___kfc_in_trouble_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Medical testing kit maker Omega Diagnostics has secured approval from China’s Food and Drug Administration to sell its food allergy test in the world’s second-largest economy. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/241212/china___british_technology_in_food_testing_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Chinese farm sector has the potential to grab a major share of the growing bilateral trade with the UAE, which is now dominated by manufactured goods and stands at US 15.6 billion in 2012. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/181212/china___more_trade_with_the_middle_east_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been reported to the OIE. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/191212/china___bird_flu_back_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The US Food and Drug Administration has extended by five years an agreement to enhance cooperation between the US and China on food safety. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/191212/china___miles_ahead_of_usa_on_meat_safety_.aspx meatpoultry.com Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT China and South Africa have joined Japan in suspending imports of Brazilian beef over an atypical case of mad cow disease, an official from the agriculture ministry said Thursday. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/211212/china___brazilian_beef_ban_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT China went on a bean-buying rampage last week, with net new bookings to the world's largest importer helping sales hit a marketing year high. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/211212/china___buying_is_soy_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The first day of the China Fisheries and Seafood Expo in Dalian was a resounding success for Marel, with visitors attracted in particular by the two machines we are demonstrating at our stand (F0501) this year. Our 63m2 stand shows off Marel's Target Batcher and Compact Grader. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/271112/hong_kong___british_beef_at_its_best_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Zhongpin Inc. (Nasdaq: HOGS) has entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger (the "Merger Agreement") with Golden Bridge Holdings Limited, a Cayman Islands exempted company ("Parent"), Golden Bridge Merger Sub Limited, a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Merger Sub") and Mr. Xianfu Zhu, the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/031212/china___more_strange_goings_on_at_zhongpin_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The tight supply of domestically produced beef has reportedly triggered a rise in retail beef prices in China (Hong Kong Wenweipo Newspaper). http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/051212/china___the_retail_meat_trade_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Yum! Brands Inc. updated its annual guidance Friday to disclose that same-store sales within its powerhouse China division would fall 4 percent for the fourth quarter, which led the company’s stock to fall as much as 10 percent during trading. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/101212/china___us_fast_food_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Zhongpin Inc. (Nasdaq: HOGS) ("Zhongpin", the "Company", "we", "us" and "our"), a leading meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger (the "Merger Agreement") with Golden Bridge Holdings Limited, a Cayman Islands exempted company ("Parent"), Golden Bridge Merger Sub Limited, a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Merger Sub") and Mr. Xianfu Zhu, the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/041212/china___a_good_way_to_stop_the__books_being_examined_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT As Wal-Mart Stores Inc expanded its internal bribery probe to developing markets including China, the world's largest retailer refused to comment on recent reports that the company will close 100 stores that are not making money. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/041212/china___problems_for_wal_mart_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Zhongpin Inc. (HOGS), a Chinese pork producer whose shares trade in the U.S., said it agreed to be acquired for about $502 million by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Zhu Xianfu. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/041212/china___somthing_not_right_at_zhongpin_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT In the north eastern part of China in Liaoning Province, Foot-and-Mouth-Disease (FMD) was found to be present. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/061212/china___fmd_confirmed_.aspx oie.com Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Zhongpin Inc. reported higher sales revenues and lower net income for the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared with the third quarter 2012. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/061212/china___when_companies_quote_turnover_they_are_ashamed_of_the_profit.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT