Grain
Prices
Grain
Prices: CBOT, 06 Jan 2010, 0854:15 hr CST,
USD/bu
Corn: Mar 10-
4.184; May 10- 4.296; Jl 10- 4.39; Sep 10-
4.424
Soybeans: Jan 10-
10.53; Mar 10- 10.59; May 10- 10.63; Jl 10-
10.674
Wheat: Mar 10-
5.546; May 10- 5.64; Jl 10- 5.752; Sep 10-
5.90
Soybean meal (USD/short
ton): Jan 10- 318.50; Mar 10- 3.094; May
10- 305.80; Jl 10-
305.10
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News from
Home
CPA: The
Caribbean Poultry Association under the
Chairmanship of Mr. Peter DeFreitas, Chairman of
Chickmont Foods Ltd., Barbados, will hold its
Annual General Meeting and Board Meeting on 27
January 2010. Both meetings will be held in
Atlanta, Georgia, USA at the time of the
International Poultry Exposition.
Jamaica: The JB
Group Ltd has been reported as losing USD 4
million during a recent week-long chicken sale. JB
had cut the prices on leg and breast cuts by as
much as 19%.
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Most
Advanced Poultry Plant
A
JV between Banham Poultry and Vion in the UK will
create the most advanced poultry plant in Europe.
The plant to be located in Suffolk will process 2
million bpw and employ 900 persons. It is expected
to be on stream in
2011.
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Artificial
MeatScientists at Eindhoven
University, Netherlands have used tissue culture
in the laboratory to grow pig muscle cells derived
from pig's blood and animal fetuses to produce
pork. The product has been described as
soggy with attempts now being made to reduce the
sogginess. This work is similar to work done to
create fish fillets from gold fish muscle cells.
The pork product could be on the market within
five years.
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Food Prices to
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FAO has warned that food
prices are on the rise again but that we may not
see the peak of 2008 again. FAO's monthly Food
Price Index (basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy,
meat & sugar) never exceeded 100 before 2007.
In November 2009, the value was 168, 21% below
June 2008.
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Conferences:
International Poultry
Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 27-29
Jan 2010. Georgia World Congress
Centre.
VIV
India 2010. South Asian Poultry, Aqua and
Dairy Markets, 1-3 February 2010. Bangalore,
India. (www.vivindia.nl/en/)
2010 CIES Food Safety
Conference, 3-5 February 2010, Washington,
DC, USA
VICTAM Asia 2010.
3-5 March 2010, Bangkok, Thailand (www.victam.com)
Global Leaders
Institute. Food Technology & Innovation
Asia 2010, Beijing, China, 7-8 April
2010.
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From the Executive Director:
COP
15, Copenhagen Ends With No
Accord
Friends of the
Earth: ....a complete
failure.....
Food & Drink
Federation (UK): This will inevitably
add to the uncertainties for all
businesses.....
Institute for
Agricultural Trade & Policy (USA):
It's shameful
that developed countries still haven't taken
responsibility on climate nor made firm legally
binding
commitments.....
The
above are comments made by non-governmental
organisations on completion of the recent COP 15,
the UN Conference on Climate Change which was held
in Copenhagen.
What
was achieved and what can we in agriculture and
specifically in the poultry industry look forward
to in the future?
The
USA, China, Brazil, India and South Africa have
signed an accord recognising the need to limit the
rise in global temperatures to no more than 2ºC.
There is no time frame nor methodology on how this
target is to be achieved. Neither have other
countries signed on to the accord. The Conference
has set up a Subsidiary Body for Scientific and
Technological Advice (SBSTA) which is to meet and
report back prior to COP 16 due to be held in
Mexico City in December 2010.
It
is clear that no country wishes to bite the bullet
on this matter. Progress (jobs, financial growth,
GDP) is equated to development which is further
equated to industry, hence carbon emissions. No
country can foresee progress without negative
environmental impacts. No government will make the
sacrifices that may signal their own demise.
Are we ready for a new paradigm of development
whatever that paradigm shift may
entail? We
in the developing world have a lot of catching up
to do and we cannot be asked to make the same
level of sacrifices as those in the developed
countries who have contributed infinitely more to
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the centuries
than we have. While we know that we are all in the
same boat and that weather is universal to all and
affects us all similarly, our contributions to
those weather effects are relatively lighter
compared to others who have enjoyed the wealth of
the world at our expense. We shall share in the
burden of payment but to a much lesser extent than
our wealthier neighbours. Read more...
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Renewable Energy from
Poultry
USA:
Elevance Renewable Sciences is building a
new USD 15 million plant in Illinois, USA that
will convert poultry fat to biofuels to be used as
an additive to jet fuels. The company has received
USD2.5 million in funding from the US Government.
Poultry fat will contribute 25% in the first year
of production.
The US poultry industry
produces approx. 4 billion pounds of poultry fat
p.a. that can be converted to 250 million gallons
of petroleum replacement products. Fifty chickens
can produce one gallon of such products from waste
fats.
China: MINHE
Animal Husbandry in Shandong Province, is
setting up an anaerobic digester that will
use 300 tons manure and 500 tons waste water per
day to generate biogas that will run 3x1MW
Jenbacher engines from General Electric. The plant
will generate 16.8 GWh p.a and reduce GHG
emissions by 67,000 tpa. MINHE produces 3.7
million chickens per year and maintains a breeding
flock of 1.5 million.
USA:
Fibrowatt (Homeland
Renewable Energy Group)
is setting up a plant in
North Carolina, to produce 55 MW p.a.
from
poultry waste. The energy will supply 46,000
homes.
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Trade News - Russia and
China
In
mid-September, China launched anti-dumping and
anti-subsidies investigations into US exports of
chicken meat. The investigations are being held by
the Ministry of Commerce to answer complaints from
domestic poultry producers.
Russia
has passed a regulation banning the use of
chlorine in poultry processing. The ban was
originally expected to take effect on 01 Jan 2009
but was delayed till 01 Jan 2010. The VPSS
(Russian Veterinary Services) has decided not to
enforce the ban immediately.
Latest
information on this issue from the Russian Chief
Sanitary Veterinarian, Dr. Gennady Onishchenko, is
that the ban stands and that imported
chlorine-treated poultry will not be allowed into
Russia as from 01Jan. 2010. Russian and USA
officials are to meet on 17 Jan to discuss this
issue. Russia imports about 600,000 tons per year
of poultry, the bulk from the USA. There is now
30,000 tons chlorine-treated poultry from the USA
in the Baltic Sea headed for Russian
ports.
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When it is chilled not
frozen?
EU
Regulation 1047/2009 bans the sale of defrosted
poultry meat and poultry meat preparations as
chilled products. The UK Law will be passed in May
2010 to give effect to this EU
directive.
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How to Kill the Goose (Hen)
that Lays the Golden
Egg?
The
EU Directive 1999/74 to be implemented by 2012
banning cages for egg production in the EU is an
example of a Law with Unintentional Consequences.
In the period 2002-07, egg production in the EU
has fallen by 2.5%. Supermarket chains in Germany
have already refused to handle eggs from caged
flocks and conventional cages were banned in
Germany (2009), in Austria from 2010, across the
EU in 2012 and in California, USA in 2015. At the
time of writing, there were 278 million hens in
the EU in cage systems and 20 million in enriched
colony systems.
By
the end of 2009, laying hens in Germany have
already fallen by 6-7 million. Replacing cages by
non-confined systems (enriched colony egg
production systems) in the EU will cost USD10
billion and increase egg costs by
5-20%.
The
question is: Will the consumers
pay?
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