Poultry News
China buys US soybeans for first time since trade war
- 15 Dec, 2018
- United States
China has bought US soybeans for the first time since the trade war between the two countries started in July. The country's finance ministry also confirmed it would temporarily reduce tariffs on US car imports from 40% to 15%, beginning on 1 January. The much anticipated moves follow a truce reached after Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in December. In announcing the tariff suspension, China said it hoped the two sides would speed negotiations. US officials haile
Read moreUS soybeans net export sales down 11.07% on week: USDA
- 15 Dec, 2018
- United States
US soybean net export sales for the 2018-19 marketing year were 792,269 mt for the week ending December 6, down 11.07% from the previous week, Department of Agriculture data showed. Since the new marketing year began September 1, total commitments — cumulative exports plus outstanding sales — were reported at 24.941 million mt, 33.76% below the same period last year. The total commitments represent 48.23% of the USDA?s 51.709 million mt of exports estimated for the entire marketin
Read moreHit by floods, Kerala poultry business expects revival after Christmas
- 14 Dec, 2018
- India
Christmas, not Easter, will be the resurrection season for Rs 4,000-crore chicken business in Kerala. The price of Christmas poultry has been flying beyond `175 per kilo this week, after the devastating floods in the state in August had wiped out more than 25 lakh farm birds. “This scene will soon start changing on New Year eve, as farmers come together to set up a project to improve the chicken supply-chain through Brahmagiri Poultry Mission. At `44-crore investment, the project counts
Read moreChina, EU solve poultry tariff disputes under WTO framework
- 14 Dec, 2018
- China
BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- China commended the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO) for its important role in safeguarding the rights and interests of WTO members and maintaining international trade order, a spokesperson with the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday. Spokesperson Gao Feng made the remarks after the European Union (EU) had agreed to grant more low-tariff quotas to Chinese poultry meat, including the quotas for 5,000 tonnes of chicken meat and 6,60
Read moreChina likely to resume U.S. soy deals, but action on tariffs uncertain: USDA chief
- 05 Dec, 2018
- United States
CHICAGO (Reuters) - China will probably resume buying American soybeans around Jan. 1 because of limited supplies in Brazil after slashing imports from the United States due to the U.S.-China trade war, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Monday. It has “yet to be determined” whether China will remove tariffs on imports of American soybeans as part of a truce agreed between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Argentina on Saturday, Perdue sa
Read moreCargill to Develop Farmer- Friendly Apps to Streamline Poultry Operations
- 03 Dec, 2018
- India
The US-based Cargill is in the process of developing farmer-friendly applications or apps which will digitise manual inputs of farm figures on a real-time basis. In its first project in India, Cargill is taking up pilot tests in cooperation with two poultry firms for providing an intelligent data management system for poultry farmers. Managing director of Cargill Premix and Nutrition, India Robert Schubert said the app named ‘Enteligen’ aims to change the way its customers manage
Read morePoultry Giant Sanderson Farms to stop using Human Antibiotic Use in Chicken Supply
- 03 Dec, 2018
- United States
Sanderson Farms Inc, the third largest poultry producer in the US will stop using antibiotics essential in combating human infections to prevent diseases in chickens by March 2019. With this, it becomes the last major chicken producer to step away from the drugs. The move by Sanderson Farms addresses fear that the overuse of antibiotics in the chickens might reduce their effectiveness in fighting disease in people. It is a turnaround for the company, which has run commercials protecting its u
Read morePoultry Industry ready for challenges as South Asia’s Biggest event gets underway in Hyderabad
- 03 Dec, 2018
- India
India’s burgeoning Poultry industry has grown by leaps and bounds due to strict housekeeping, exacting ventilation, feeding practices, automation and disease control mechanism administered by responsible and trained farmers. This has given India pride of place as the world’s 3rd largest egg producer. India is also the fourth-largest chicken producer after China, Brazil and USA. The industry today is estimated at nearly 100,000 crores and is one of the prime sectors
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