Replacement rate vs. staff turnover
We are all well aware of how important it is to have a correct replacement rate, BUT are we aware of the importance and costs related to staff turnover?
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We are reaching the bottom level. The end of the waterfall
Our prices will still fall, with slight drops, but it will fall, until reaching a point in which all the pigs that can be slaughtered will be slaughtered. The bottom price cannot be very far away…
Pork Quarterly Q4 2017: Steady growth in production brings trade into sharper focus
Looking into Q4 2017, global pork supply is expected to increase further, mainly driven by China, the US, Canada, and Brazil. While China’s pork imports have slowed down recently, they are likely to pick up again later this year, according to RaboResearch’s latest global Pork Quarterly.
“If you are offered a seat on a rocket, don’t ask which one, just get on!”
The sentence of the title is a quote from Sheryl Sandburg, COO Facebook. Contrary to all the headline grabbing scary stuff about dictators with missiles and itchy fingers, we appear to be entering a period of wide spread global economic recovery and potential prosperity that will drive big benefits to billions of people and some very special good news for pork producers worldwide.
Argentina: increase in pig production
Year-on-year increase by 7% encouraged by the rise in domestic consumption, that reached 13.7 kg per capita and with an expected growth of 8-9.5% in 2017.
Global pork production is forecast up
Global production is forecast up nearly 2 percent in 2018 to 113.1 million tons, primarily on expansion in China and to a lesser extent the United States.
Mexico records the highest livestock production in history
Livestock production in Mexico attained an historic growth by reaching a record production of 6.5 million tonnes (carcass weight) in 2016, that meant an increase by 202,000 tonnes (3.2% more than in 2015), according to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA).
Other alternatives for the control of salmonella in pigs?
We must come up with new strategies. The objective would be to prevent the animals going for slaughter from shedding Salmonella when they arrive at the abattoir, since they are the biggest responsible for carcass contamination.
Growing production of pork combined with falling exports could lead to lower prices
The growing production of pigmeat combined with falling exports could lead to lower prices. This is just one of the findings of the latest short term outlook report from the European Commission's agriculture and rural development department.
Japan: hog slaughter and pork production in 2017
Post projects Japan’s total hog slaughter in 2017 to sustain at nearly the same level as the previous year at around 16.37 million head.
Germany: Tierwohl Initiative, improving welfare to improve the end product
Tierwohl Initiative is an initiative that implies farms, abattoirs and supermarkets, and whose aim is to offer a better end product quality through the improvement of the animals’ welfare.
Global consumer trends and the opportunity for American agriculture
Global Consumer Trends and the Opportunity for American Agriculture - Dr. Mark Lyons, Global Vice President & Head of Greater China, Alltech, from the 2017 NIAA Annual Conference, U.S. Animal Agriculture's Future Role In World Food Production - Obstacles & Opportunities, April 4 - 6, Columbus, OH, USA.
Cherkizovo Group ranks as Russia’s top meat producer
PJSC Cherkizovo Group, the largest vertically integrated meat and feed producer in Russia, announces that it has come first in the 2016 Agroinvestors ranking of Russia’s top meat producers.
Transition to diets without zinc oxide (2/2): additives
It is difficult for a single additive to mimic the effect of the addition of antibiotics or ZnO. This is why we need to combine groups of additives in water and feed, so they act both, as prevention and treatment.
The French pig production drops
In the first semester of 2017, pig production fell by 4.7% with respect to the same period in 2016.
Canada: hog production up
Hog producers reported 14.1 million hogs, up 2.1% from July 1, 2016, marking the fifth consecutive year-over-year increase.