3 Argentina beef plants were shut down because of the COVID situation: Santa Fe, Rosario, Black Bamboo. MARFRIG remains with it's working capacity 60% only.
3 newly approved plants to export to China from USA
China has temporarily suspended imports of beef from a Minerva SA, Brazil. The ban took effect on 1 October and will last for a week. 8 Brazilian plants are currently are not shipping meat to China, though some of these stoppages were voluntary
US live cattle futures slipped on 30 September and feeder prices dipped as prices for grain used as animal feed soared
Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board, has launched a Grass Fed Standard for Beef, the world’s first on a national scale, that allows it to track and verify the percentage of grass consumed in the diet of Irish beef herds
Within 7 months of 2020, Mainland China imported a total of 846,476 tons meat from North America. Mainland China's total imports (4,207,174 tons) in the first seven months of this year.
Bolivia's total beef exports for January-July 2020 far exceeded last year's annual beef exports of 2,908 tonnes, doubling growth to 5,625 tonnes.