Tag: cattle

• Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 10:31 UTC

  Brazilian banks will deny credit to meatpackers that buy cattle from deforested areas

  

  International measures on illegal deforestation are beginning to put pressure on Brazil, where banks have agreed to deny credit to meat packers that purchase cattle from such areas, according to the Brazilian Federation of Banks (Febraban).

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2021 - 05:30 UTC

  Global meat processor moves into Paraguay: plans an abattoir that handles 1,200 cattle per day

  

  Brazil's global meat processor, Marfrig has purchased land to build a major abattoir in Paraguay. Landlocked Paraguay is a full member of Mercosur, who together with partners Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, has become the world's leading meat export region.

• Thursday, January 7th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazilian leading meatpackers linked to ranches that use slave labor

  

  An investigation published this week showed six Brazilian meatpacker firms bought cattle from ranches that used slave labor. Labor experts suggested on Wednesday that the firms must clean up their supply chains.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Southern Brazil leads in exports of live cattle: US$ 111 million in seven months

  

  The port of Rio Grande in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul is shipping 4,000 head of cattle for Lebanon and 22,000 destined for Turkey, totaling 26,000 animals to be exported.

• Tuesday, July 28th 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  Brazil's JBS caught “laundering” cattle from ranches blacklisted for destroying the Amazon rainforest

  

  Brazilian firm JBS, the world's biggest meat processing company, was again accused on Monday of “laundering” cattle from ranches blacklisted for destroying the Amazon rainforest.

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  Foot and mouth disease spreads to the whole of the Korean peninsula

  

  In the wake of the South Korean government’s battle to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease following an outbreak in three farmhouses in the cities of Anseong and Chungju earlier this year, North Korean livestock industry insiders have reported that Pyongyang is also struggling with a nationwide spread of the disease outbreak that began in the middle of January.

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Tudder, the livestock Tinder, helps farmers find the perfect breeding for their cattle

  

  Following the example of dating and matchmaking Tinder, UK farming start-up Hectare has launched its own equivalent for livestock and called it Tudder. The app features data profiles of animals from 42,000 UK farms in an effort to help farmers find the perfect breeding partner for their cattle.

• Friday, February 8th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Fears in Australia that hundreds of thousands of cattle could have died in record floods

  

  Hundreds of thousands of cattle weakened from a severe drought are feared to have died in record-breaking floods in northeastern Australia, authorities said on Friday, as they stepped up efforts to feed surviving livestock.

• Friday, May 25th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Relief in Brazil after recovering free of FMD with vaccination OIE status

  

  The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) declared Brazil free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) with vaccination on Thursday, opening new export prospects for the world’s largest beef exporter. The OIE already considered most of Brazil to be free of foot-and-mouth with vaccination. The declaration, which the government had been expecting since the start of the year, extends certification to the whole country.

• Wednesday, May 22nd 2013 - 10:28 UTC

  UK approves vaccine against Schmallenberg virus which attacks pregnant cattle and sheep

  

  A vaccine to protect sheep and cattle from a virus spread by midges has been approved by UK government vets. The virus, which emerged in the Netherlands and Germany in 2011, can lead to sheep and cattle having stillborn or deformed offspring.