TheCattleSite Latest News: France
19 December 2012
French Farmers Demand Flexible CAP AidANALYSIS - Rising production costs in the French agricultural sector have more than countered the improvement in prices and next year the situation is expected to get worse, writes Chris Harris....
18 December 2012
Farm Income Report Shows Difficult YearFRANCE - The Commission of National Agricultural Accounts has released the results of the farm income forecast for 2012 showing smaller volumes and higher costs of production are threatening rural life in some provincial French areas. ...
19 November 2012
French Prime Minister Demands Reform SatisfactionFRANCE - The French Prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault has called for a successful European Policy reform but had stresses French interests must be satisfied....
01 November 2012
Brucellosis Case in Wild Goats FRANCE - An outbreak of brucellosis has been reported in South East France, affecting four mountain goats (Alpine ibex). ...
18 October 2012
French Milk Producers Appear in CourtFRANCE - Nine French milk producers appeared in court earlier this month, charged with property damage in connection with the milk strike in 2009....
08 October 2012
French Cattle Supplies Continue to Decline FRANCE - The latest figures published in September by the French Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Forestry show a 10 per cent decline in finished cattle slaughterings during August compared to a year earlier, writes Bernadette Byrne from the Paris...
02 October 2012
The 26th SPACE: Looking to the FutureFRANCE - The 26th SPACE trade fair took place from 11 to 14 September 2012 in Rennes in a very positive atmosphere, with much high-quality dialogue, both at exhibitors’ stands and at the 50 organised conferences....
21 September 2012
FAO and OIE Work on Formal AccordFRANCE - The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN and the World Animal Health Organisation are to work on a formal accord to address the overlaps in the mandates of the two agencies and facilitate and improve cooperation. ...
20 September 2012
International Coordination Stabilising Food Prices FRANCE - Better international coordination and increased information exchange are helping to ease tight markets, French President François Hollande and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva agreed during discussions in Paris this week. ...
18 September 2012
French Govt Acts to Save Producers from Increasing CostsFRANCE - With the costs of production, in particular grain prices, increasing, the French government has proposed a strategic action plan that will help producers deal with escalating costs and in the long-term, protect consumers from rising food prices....
14 September 2012
Investment Fund Established for Livestock ProducersFRANCE - With livestock producers suffering from high feed prices, a solidarity fund has been established by grain producers. It is expected this fund will lower the cost of production for producers as well as provide them with some means to invest in...
07 September 2012
Minimising Pain in Farm Animals FRANCE - Recently, the French National Institute for Agricultural Research appointed an expert committee to review the issue of pain in food-producing farm animals. To minimise pain, the authors developed a ‘3S’ approach accounting for ‘Suppress,...
21 August 2012
Biomin.net Now Available in FrenchFRANCE - BIOMIN has now launched a French version of the corporate website www.biomin.net....
25 June 2012
Energy Costs Savings of Spray Drying Dairy ProductsFRANCE - Different uses of current technologies can help reduce energy costs of spray drying of dairy products and enhance functional properties of dairy powders according to IDF and INRA expert Pierre Schuck. ...
12 June 2012
Global Protein Market in State of Structural ChangeFRANCE - The world is no longer one of structural surpluses, it is a world of structural scarcity David Nelson, a global strategist with Rabobank's Food and Agribusiness Research and Advisory Group told the World Meat Congress in Paris last week, writes...
11 June 2012
France MilkBoard ExpandsFRANCE - As milk producers and companies in France are now obliged by law to conclude contracts, the expansion of a producer organisation like France MilkBoard is even more important, writes Paul de Montvalont from the Office du Lait. ...
08 June 2012
WMC - Industry Warned over Unintended Consequences of ChangesFRANCE - The global meat industry was warned to take a lesson to from the decline of the horse slaughter industry in the US at the World Meat Congress in Paris this week, writes Chris Harris. ...
06 June 2012
Sustainability Theme to World Meat CongressFRANCE - The World Meat Congress opened its doors on Tuesday (5 June) with its eyes firmly set on the subject of sustainable production, writes Chris Harris in Paris. ...
Meat Congress Meets Challenges to Global IndustryFRANCE - The global meat industry has two main challenges - to meet the growing world demand for food and the challenge to meet environmental concerns, writes Chris Harris from the World Meat Congress in Paris. ...
WMC - IMS in Partnership with FAO on Livestock EmissionsFRANCE - The International Meat Secretariat is to join forces with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations to establish global standards to assessing the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions caused by livestock production, writes Chris...
23 May 2012
OIE: More Schmallenberg Outbreaks ReportedFRANCE - Sixty-nine more outbreaks of Schmallenberg virus have been reported to the OIE....
10 May 2012
Veterinarians Demand Faster DiagnosticsFRANCE - Speed and accuracy are the key features that veterinarians and farmers want from diagnostic tests, a new Europe wide survey has revealed. ...
OIE: Brucellosis Outbreaks Reported in FranceFRANCE - Brucella abortus and Brucella melitensis outbreaks have been reported to the OIE....
12 April 2012
Five Year Compulsory Milk Contracts ExcessiveFRANCE - With the French presidential elections coming up at the end of April, the French Milk Producers Association (APLI) has written to President Nicolas Sarkozy highlighting the problems with obligatory milk contracts....
19 March 2012
France Looks to Compensate Schmallenberg VictimsFRANCE - Livestock professionals met with Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire last week to discuss the Schmallenberg situation in France. ...
13 March 2012
Stunning the Rule, Ritual Slaughter the ExceptionFRANCE - When it comes to slaughter, stunning is the rule, ritual slaughter is the exception, said Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire, when shedding the light on the practice of ritual slaughter in France. ...
07 March 2012
Cattle Are Not a Reservoir for New STECFRANCE - Researchers have found that cattle are not a reservoir for the new highly virulent enteroaggregative Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli of (STEC) O104:H4, which was the cause of an outbreak of foodborne disease from sprouts in Europe last...
Life Technologies Acquires LSIFRANCE - Life Technologies Corporation has announced it has acquired Laboratoire Service International (LSI), a French-based manufacturer of animal health diagnostics. ...
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