Latest industry news and updates from the meatborsa team.
Published about about 18 hours ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak
Director of Marketing
The Netherlands confirmed three avian influenza outbreaks between 26 and 28 October and ordered all poultry indoors, but the reported cases are egg-laying hens and a small flock, so we explain what that means for chicken meat buyers.
Published 2 days ago in Market Analysis
Martina Osmak
Director of Marketing
The German VEZG pig price fell 8 cents to €1.32 per kg, 47% below its July 2023 peak and €0.73 under farm full costs, which makes balance sheets, not meat, the question for the pork trade.
Published 3 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak
Director of Marketing
Irish factories are trimming cattle offers as the weekly kill jumped 23.6% in mid-October, and our view is that this is early-finished cattle arriving at once, not a lasting turn in beef demand.
Published 4 days ago in Company Updates
Martina Osmak
Director of Marketing
We are exhibiting on home ground this November, and we would like to show you how buyers and sellers find each other on our platform.
Published 4 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
The Philippine Agriculture Department says it intends to suspend import clearances for selected pork cuts from about mid-November, and our view is that the risk for exporters sits in cargo timing and contract wording, not in world pork prices.
Published 5 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
Two bird flu cases in Great Britain this October, one of them on a free-range egg farm, have cost the country its disease-free status, and our take is that for chicken meat buyers the risk sits in origin paperwork and local movement rules, not in supply.
Published 8 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
France confirmed the first human case of Shamonda virus on 22 October, and our view is that the real exposure for meat buyers is headlines and calf crops, not meat safety or trade rules.
Published 9 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
The team is back from SIAL Paris 2026 after five busy days, with new conversations and a first public showing of Margin, our new trading app.
Published 11 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
A Devon vet found about half of tested rams infertile after bluetongue, and a sheep farmer survey shows 40% could not get vaccine this season, which matters for UK lamb supply in 2027.
Published 11 days ago in Market Analysis
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
UK fresh meat prices slipped in September while the latest forecasts show beef, sheep meat and pig meat output all falling in 2027, and we think buyers should read that gap as a timing signal.
Published 12 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
African swine fever outbreaks in Europe fell 16.6% in the first nine months of 2026, but domestic pig outbreaks stayed flat and Spain's trade restrictions remain in force, and our view is that the headline count understates what buyers and sellers of pork still face.
Published 15 days ago in Market Analysis
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
USDA's October outlook cuts US beef and pork output and raises chicken, and our view is that each protein is now being driven by a different problem: beef by short supply, pork by heavy stocks and weak exports, chicken by plenty.