Beef

US Justice Department probes meatpackers for price manipulation, collusion

[WASHINGTON] The US is investigating meatpacking companies, the attorney general said on Friday, after President Donald Trump accused the companies of using price manipulation and collusion to drive u...

Australia’s stringent biosecurity rules blocked imports of cattle slaughtered in the United States, but born in Canada or Mexico.

Australia lifts trade barriers on US beef

[SYDNEY] Australia said on Thursday it would lift trade barriers on beef from the United States, removing a major point of friction between Canberra and the Trump administration.

A worker uses a forklift to move boxes of imported pork from the US at a cold storage warehouse in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

China renews export registrations for US pork, poultry plants in relief to farmers

[BEIJING] Beijing has renewed registrations that allow hundreds of US pork and poultry facilities to export to China, industry groups said on Monday, after lapses threatened shipments to the world’s l...

Chinese demand for beef has surged by nearly 40 times over the last half-century as a more affluent population developed a taste for steak and hotpots.

Record beef imports raising risk of China imposing trade curbs

Around two-thirds of Chinese cattle farmers are making losses

For pig producers, “emerging markets are significantly less vulnerable, given the stable domestic demand for pork and delayed implementation of climate policies,” Fitch said.

Pork producers face downgrades as climate risks rise, Fitch says

PORK and beef producers in developed markets are becoming more vulnerable to credit downgrades triggered by climate-related risks, according to Fitch Ratings.

China will consume 11.712 million tons of beef in 2025, up 0.25 per cent from this year’s forecast.

China’s beef demand poised for smallest growth in a decade, USDA says

Economic headwinds will also curb China’s intake of pork, the country’s favourite meat

While meat from ractopamine-fed animals is considered safe for human consumption by US authorities, the substance is banned in several countries.

China halts shipments from JBS beef plant in US over feed additive

CHINA has blocked beef exports from a major JBS beef plant in the United States after a controversial feed additive was found in meat shipments to the world’s largest buyer.

Indonesia, the largest market for Australian live cattle exports, last week placed some restrictions even as officials sought to allay fears by conducting rapid diagnostic testing.

Malaysia blocks live cattle imports from Australia after skin disease scare

MALAYSIA has temporarily suspended live cattle and buffalo imports from Australia, the Australian government said, days after Indonesia paused some imports after lumpy skin disease (LSD) was detected ...

Global beef consumption is expected to stall this year and even fall in the US; after that, industry experts expect growth to recover to just around 1 per cent a year for the next two decades.

Cargill’s big beef bet falters as food inflation hits demand

WHEN David MacLennan put plans in motion to step down as Cargill’s chief executive officer, his transformation of the global grains trader into a protein powerhouse was looking particularly shrewd.

Australia is one of China’s top suppliers of beef but import volumes have plunged since 2020, even as the country buys larger volumes of meat.

China’s ports speed up clearing of Australian beef imports

CHINA’S ports have been clearing cargoes of Australian beef within one or two weeks since the start of this year, much faster than the months taken during the last two years, according to an Australia...