Latest industry news and updates from the meatborsa team.
Published about about 9 hours ago in Market Analysis
Martina Osmak
Director of Marketing
UK prime cattle slaughter rose 3.1% in August while farm unions warn of falling livestock numbers and a new Scottish beef plant plans for 2029, and our view is that this autumn's extra beef is borrowed from next year's supply.
Published 1 day ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak
Director of Marketing
From 1 October 2026 Croatia extends its "anchored price" rule to all products and services, and for meat sold in shops the comparison price stays at 2 May 2025, which we think will move price pressure up the supply chain toward meat suppliers.
Published 2 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak
Director of Marketing
Ireland confirmed its first bluetongue case in a sheep in the same week Irish factories raised lamb prices by 10c/kg, and our view is that the disease is a live-animal and future-supply risk, not a reason to expect cheaper lamb this autumn.
Published 3 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak
Director of Marketing
A European Commission audit found significant and systemic shortcomings in Thailand's poultry export controls, and our view is that audit findings, not tariffs or quotas, are now what decides which poultry actually reaches Europe.
Published 4 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
Finland's new African swine fever buffer zone is officially free of the disease, yet live pigs inside it still cannot leave the country, and we think that gap is the real lesson for European pork buyers.
Published 7 days ago in Market Analysis
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
Extra-EU egg imports rose 90.8% in the first five months of 2026 and Türkiye went from 991 tonnes to 32,053, and our view is that this new supply line stays open even as European prices cool.
Published 8 days ago in Industry Insights
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
Ireland took a record 82 medals at the 2026 World Steak Challenge while an Australian grain-fed Wagyu took the single top title, and we think the medal table is the result that actually matters to beef buyers.
Published 9 days ago in Market Analysis
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
Brazil lost its Chinese quota and its European market access within weeks, and our view is that the displaced beef goes to the United States rather than Europe, so EU buyers should not wait for a price break.
Published 10 days ago in Market Analysis
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
World pork quotations rose in August mainly because hot weather in the European Union slowed pig growth, and we think that makes the current firmness a delay rather than a turn in the cycle.
Published 11 days ago in Market Analysis
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
Two of Spain's best-paying pork markets are still shut while Spanish plants keep producing more, and our view is that the meat has only one place left to go: Europe.
Published 11 days ago in News
Martina Osmak, Director of Marketing
France and Bulgaria have confirmed the first avian influenza cases of the autumn season, while Newcastle disease has come back in Poland and reached Hungary for the first time.
Published 14 days ago in Market Analysis
Bo Pedersen, Chief Revenue Officer
Ground control of the strait is not the same thing as attacking ships in it, however it piles on risk just as carriers were returning to Suez.