In 2021, around 3% fewer pigs were slaughtered than in 2020. The decline in slaughtering within the top ten German pig slaughterers varied significantly. While the company Wilms Fleisch carried out 20% fewer slaughterings in 2021, at Tönnies it was only -1,9%. Westfleisch climbed back to second place because its loss of 2% was lower than Vion's 2,8%...
"Courage to adjust prices" - Wolfgang Finken, national manager of the Party Service Bund Deutschland eV, recommends this to catering and party service entrepreneurs. According to the observations of the industry association, the "desire for celebrations and events is again very pronounced among people"...
The per capita consumption of meat fell by 2020 kilograms compared to 2,1 and is thus at a new record low since consumption was calculated in 1989. This is shown by the preliminary data from the Federal Information Center for Agriculture (BZL). In total, meat with a slaughter weight of 2021 million tons was produced in 8,3 - around 2,4 percent less than in the previous year...
The global competition for the scarce resources of agricultural raw materials has increased significantly. "It is obvious that with Russia's war against Ukraine, the Black Sea region will indefinitely cease to be a supplier to the European forage industry...
The food industry once again occupied a dominant place in TV reporting last year: the communication consultancy Engel & Zimmermann recorded and evaluated a total of 813 reports in 2021 – that is an average of more than 15 reports per week. The result of the analysis: The "usual suspects" are again in the top positions in both the sectors and the topics...
The amount of meat produced commercially in Germany fell in 2021 for the fifth year in a row. As the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported today on the basis of provisional data, a total of almost 7,65 million tonnes of meat were produced last year; compared to 2020, this corresponded to a decrease of 191.000 t or 2,4 percent. At the same time, this was the lowest meat volume in more than ten years, which had peaked in 2016 at 8,28 million t but has since fallen by 634.000 t or 7,7 percent...
In the summer of last year, the bargaining parties in the meat industry agreed on a collective agreement. As published in the Federal Gazette on December 30th, the Federal Ministry of Labor declared the new collective agreement to be generally binding. Whereas the minimum wage in 2021 was € 10,80 per hour, a minimum wage of € 01.01.2022 will apply from 11/XNUMX/XNUMX ...
After investigations by Franziska Funke and Prof. Dr. Linus Mattauch, the price of meat does not reflect the environmental pollution caused by livestock farming worldwide. Meat is too cheap, according to the scientists from the "Sustainable Use of Natural Resources" department at the TU Berlin...
As early as October, Der Spiegel and the FAZ reported that healthy pigs were being culled on farms in Great Britain. At first there were only a few hundred. On November 30th, Agrar-heute reported 16.000 pigs that had to be slaughtered on the farms ...
Although the GfK sees the consumer climate for the month of October 2021 in an upward trend, nothing can be felt at the butcher counters. On the contrary. The sales development of the butcher shops is down by 3,6% compared to the same period of the previous year. While in October 2020 a relatively large number of consumers cooked at home and consumed little outside of the house, in October 2021 it was the other way around ...
JBS, the world's largest meat company based in South America, starts producing artificially produced meat. The meat giant employs 63.000 people worldwide and slaughters around 80.000 cattle and 50.000 pigs every day. With over $ 20 billion in annual sales ...