Tag: Livestock

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 06:22 UTC

  Mercosur costs and growing domestic demand limit beef export volumes

  

  With stronger local currencies Mercosur main beef exporters, Brazil and Uruguay are finding it more profitable to supply their domestic markets than exporting, in spite of growing international demand.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 14:11 UTC

  Uruguay’s wholesale prices soared 10.82% in the first quarter of 2011

  

  Uruguay’s wholesale prices soared in March for the third month running reaching 4.42%, the highest since 2010, reports the country’s Statistics Institute, INE.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 19:15 UTC

  Japan requests OIE free of FMD status; Korea de-listed resumes pork exports

  

  Japan formally requested the World Organization for Animal health, OIE, to declare the country free of foot and mouth disease do it can resume beef exports. Japan suffered an outbreak of FMD which forced the termination of 289.000 livestock.

• Saturday, May 8th 2010 - 06:26 UTC

  Viral Equine Arteritis Outbreak in the Province of Buenos Aires

  

  SENASA, Argentina’s National Food Safety and Quality Service, issued a statement suspending all transportation of horses in the Buenos Aires province for two weeks due to an outbreak of Viral Equine Arteritis.