Beef
ABP is confirming the company’s continuing commitment to an integrated dairy calf-to-beef system in Northern Ireland.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has just recorded a third consecutive year of growth with turnover for 2025/2026 totalling £13.9 billion.
Global meat producer JBS has announced the planned closure of two of its facilities located in the US states of Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
N.Ireland
One positive feature of this year’s Armagh Show was the turn-out of young handlers across all the competition sections of the event.
NI beef producers must be allowed to achieve ongoing realistic levels of economic sustainability, a senior academic manager has stressed.
New Zealand sheep and beef farm profit is expected to increase 96% to NZ$287,600 per farm for the 2025/2026 year.
The increased use of obesity medications can be a good news story for the red meat industries, a beef conference has heard today.
England plans to achieve officially bTB-free status by 2038 under a new strategy, with hopes of deploying a vaccine for the disease by 2030.
Dairy
Though temperatures soared in late May and early June, for autumn calvers, the full effect of the heat stress may not be felt until calving.
Agri-Business
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is aiming to grow the export value of New Zealand’s red meat sector to NZ$23 billion by 2035.
China could reshape trade flows for beef globally according to a food/agricultural commodity market research organisation.
When spreading nutrients this summer, it is easy to just throw out slurry and chemical fertiliser, but it vital to remember sulphur.
The global supply of terrestrial animal source food (TASF), driven mainly by egg, poultry and pig meat, has seen a significant increase.
Falkland Estate confirmed that it has slaughtered 271 cattle on its farm after failing a Scottish government inspection for non-compliance with regulations.
While restaurants in the UK have started to expand their menus, the proportion of red meat options available is still down.
Beef processors have “moved too far and too fast in cutting prices”, according to UFU beef and lamb chair, Brendan Kelly.
Four new cases of bluetongue were detected in the UK last week as midge activity continues to ramp...
After such a dry and warm week, the rainfall this week may create the perfect environment for lungworm development.
The ongoing BVD eradication campaign is already delivering animal health benefits across Ireland’s dairy and beef sectors.
The eradication of BVD remains the number one priority for Animal Health Ireland (AHI). And the clock is ticking.
Herd keepers are being reminded that the threshold for applying bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) herd restrictions is to reduce.
Vaccinating for bluetongue prior to breeding “can give ultimate protection”, according to the Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland.
New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that the beef industry had its “strongest start on record” in 2026.
