Illegal Drug in China's Poultry Production Raises Public Concerns China Central Television (CCTV), the nation's largest media outlet, recently reported that illegal chemicals and antibiotics were used in poultry production to boost chicken growth. Farm workers in Shandong province, one of China's major poultry production areas, were filmed pouring bottles of medicines, additives and up to 18 kinds of antibiotics into chicken feed. The CCTV reporter found that chickens raised on the farm were fed antibiotics twice a day since birth and that the drugs were changed often because the chickens would develop resistance to them over time. Some farms also fed chickens banned drugs to speed up their growth. These chickens were transported to a lo...
Key Takeaways: Brazil confirmed a Newcastle disease outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in Santa Catarina on 18 October, raising concerns about potential disruptions to poultry exports despite the outbreak being confined to a single facility thus far. Mexico and Malaysia have imposed nationwi...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.