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Mostly quiet demand
The supply of eggs was temporarily not so plentiful in the month under review. However, the volume of goods in the M and L weight classes was still high and in some cases exceeded the sales opportunities. On average, the demand for eggs could be met in all weight classes without any problems. A large number of goods were also available in other EU countries, but imports did not usually occur as the local price level was relatively unattractive for other suppliers.
Consumer demand was mostly quiet in June. At times, egg sales were also disrupted by the holidays. At the beginning of the month, the egg products industry took goods off the market fairly quickly, but towards the end of the month interest waned again. The export business played only a minor role in the past few weeks.
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Germany's most important food supplier
The Netherlands are one of Germany's closest foreign trade partners. Even if the flow of trade to and from the north-western neighbor has grown at a below-average rate since 1996, according to the Federal Statistical Office, trade still achieved average annual growth rates of 4,2 percent for exports and 5,5 percent for imports. During this period, German exports grew by a total of 7,5 percent and imports by 6,3 percent per year.
According to the latest figures for the first quarter of 2004, exports to the Netherlands increased by 2003 percent compared to January to March 7,1; Goods worth 10,9 billion euros crossed the German border towards Holland. At the same time, goods worth 11,4 billion euros came from the Netherlands to the local market; that was 1,5 percent more than in the previous year.
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Aromatic and delicate
Delight in a different way. How about a juicy lamb variation? The aromatic meat is tender and convinces with its variety. The species-typical feed base gives it a characteristic, spicy taste. Whether it's "Lamb nuts with a herb crust" or "Rosemary skewers with lamb fillet", the new brochure from the CMA Centrale Marketing-Gesellschaft der Deutschen Agrarwirtschaft mbH "Lamb Meat Recipes" provides numerous ideas for preparation. In addition to the recipes, consumers will find product information.
Lamb harmonises extremely well with fine herbs and exotic spices. In this way, every dish becomes a special kind of culinary experience. Numerous variations are waiting to be cooked on 24 illustrated pages. As a true "power pack", lamb supplies the body with important nutrients. 100 grams of lamb (leg) contains around 18 grams of protein. In Germany it finds more and more followers.
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General meeting discussed the future of the markets and social policy
The general assembly of the German Farmers' Association (DBV) on June 28th and 29th, 2004 in Bonn was dominated by the discussion about future political and market developments in the course of the EU agricultural reform. Around 400 delegates from the 18 state farmers' associations and 46 associated associations, as well as numerous young farmers, discussed in five forums with leading entrepreneurs, economic experts, politicians and practitioners. The development of agricultural social security systems, the opportunities in the markets for milk, processing, arable farming, renewable raw materials and renewable energies as well as in fruit and vegetable cultivation were analyzed. Milk protest has prevented worse
Hubertus Pellengahr, Managing Director of the Main Association of German Retailers, addressed the delegates in the Milk Forum with positive news: "The nationwide campaigns by milk producers in the last few weeks and months at discounters and food retailers have prevented worse things from happening". This was also confirmed by Albert Große Frie, spokesman for the board of the second largest German dairy, Humana Milch-Union.
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Sonnleitner: Solidarity between pig farmers and laying hen farmers
From the point of view of the farmers' association, the pig husbandry ordinance that the federal government has now introduced to the Bundesrat is an affront. It deviates significantly from the compromise on the Animal Welfare Livestock Farming Ordinance (Laying Hens and Pig Farming Ordinance) that was found but not decided last autumn. The Federal Ministry for Consumers, Food and Agriculture is once again trying to go its own national way, including when defining the minimum areas for pigs, the width of the slats and the transitional periods.
The President of the German Farmers' Association (DBV), Gerd Sonnleitner, made it clear at a conference of the poultry industry association in Lower Saxony that the DBV had called on all federal states to reject the federal government's proposal for the pig husbandry ordinance. In the meantime, this draft ordinance has been removed from the urgent procedure intended by the federal government by the majority of the members of the Bundesrat. In addition, the majority of the federal states have taken up the demand of the DBV and have emphasized the harmonization of the provisions in the EU as a priority task in the pig husbandry ordinance.
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In July 2003, the Commission amended Regulation (EEC) No. 344/91 to create the legal basis for the approval of devices for automatic cattle classification (Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 344/91 of February 13, 1991 with implementing regulations). for Regulation (EEC) No. 1186/90 to extend the scope of the Community classification scheme for carcasses of adult cattle (OJ No. L 41/15) in the currently valid version).
For the national approval of a classification device, a certification test must be carried out with the participation of an international group of experts. In the test, the commercial grade is determined on a representative sample of at least 600 carcasses. The median of the results from five national experts forms the reference value for the classification device. The measurement accuracy of the device is evaluated using a point scheme, the systematic distortion and the slope of the regression line.
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Source: Fleischwirtschaft 1 (2004), 51-56.
Work has been going on for many years to clarify the connections that lead to the knife breaking in the cutter. The problem is that several forms of stress occur at the same time, which also shift with the material conversion in the area of the knife set. The active conditions constantly take on new forms of stress over a production cycle of boiled sausage meat. As a further degree of complexity, the cutters from different manufacturers introduce special load characteristics into the investigations through hood and bowl shapes.
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Source: Gastroenterology 126 (2004), 520-528.
The non-specific (innate) immune response is the first line of defense against infectious diseases. It is generally carried out on factors invading pathogens (lipopolysaccharides (LPS, endotoxin), bacterial lipoproteins, lipoteichoic acids, peptidoglycans, CpG nucleic acids). The first challenge for the host is to track down the pathogen and initiate a rapid defense reaction. A group of proteins comprising the Toll or Toll-like receptor family performs this function in vertebrates and invertebrates. The TLRs (Toll-like receptors) serve as so-called pattern recognition receptors in mammals and play an essential role in the recognition of microbial components. They are expressed on macrophages, dendritic cells and B lymphocytes, among other things, and recognize antigenic structures that are highly conserved in the living environment, so-called pathogen-associated molecular patterns. TLR2 is activated by bacterial lipoproteins, TLR3 by dsRNA, TLR4 by LPS, and TLR9 is activated by CpG DNA. CpG motifs are regularly found in bacterial and viral genomes, but not in vertebrate genomes. Receptor-related adapter proteins, e.g. B. the signal transmitter MyD88 involved.
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Food safety shapes Congress after BSE cases in Canada and USA - criticism of trade barriers
The 15th World Meat Congress took place in Canada in mid-June, attracting great attention from the Canadian public. Around 500 representatives of the international meat industry and government representatives from all over the world met under the conference theme "The World Meat Industry at a Crossroads". Germany was present with ten participants. The federal government was advised by Dr. Hermann-Josef Schlöder, Head of the Meat Department at the BMVEL. Germany on the board of the IMS
In the run-up to the conference, the meetings of the working groups and the general assembly of the International Meat Secretariat, IMS, traditionally took place. At the board elections, Franz Gausepohl was unanimously re-elected for another four-year term at the suggestion of the VDF. The General Assembly elected Patrick Moore (Bord Bia, Ireland) as the new President of the World Meat Union. The previous President Philip Seng (US Meat Export Federation) was no longer available for this office after eight years in office. On behalf of the German delegation, Franz Gausepohl thanked the outgoing president for his excellent commitment and emphasized the positive development of the IMS under his presidency. The IMS now works closely with international organizations such as the International Office for Epizootics in Paris, OIE, the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation, OECD, the World Health Organization, WHO, and the Codex Alimentarius, which is based at the World Food Organization, FAO.
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190.000 signatures handed over to Federal Minister Künast for preservation
"The Federal Hunting Act is exemplary and has also proven itself in terms of animal welfare and forest management! Deficits that exist in practice only arise from inadequate implementation of the existing regulations. There is therefore no technical reason for an amendment. The federal hunting law must remain unchanged”. This was stated by the chairman of the Federal Working Group of Hunting Cooperatives and Private Hunt Owners (BAGJE), Bernhard Haase, on the occasion of the handing over of 190.000 signatures to Federal Minister Renate Künast at the general meeting of the German Farmers' Association in Bonn. The signature campaign was initiated by the federal working group for the preservation of the federal hunting law.
“Hunting in Germany is both legally and organizationally exemplary and modern. An amendment would not be progress, but rather a step backwards,” Haase clarified. Due to the fact that the right to hunt is tied to the property, the property owners are involved in the implementation of hunting in their hunting grounds via the hunting cooperatives. By transferring the right to hunt to one person or group of people, the hunting ground system ensures that there is no competition between different hunters in one area. As a result, sustainable game management is ensured as a result of the system and the personal responsibility of landowners and hunters is strengthened. Demands for a revision of the regulations that affect the internal relationships of the hunting cooperatives, as well as changed minimum sizes of joint and private hunting districts would shake the balanced system of rights and obligations of the Federal Hunting Act without any technical reason.
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Structural change continues
The structural change in Austrian pig production has continued: According to official information, significantly fewer pig farmers were counted in 2003, and the number of pigs housed continued to decline compared to the previous year. However, the rate of reduction has slowed down, and in some areas there has even been an increase in inventories.
In the livestock census of December 1, 2003, around 3,25 million pigs were counted in Austria, which was 1,8 percent fewer than a year earlier. However, the decrease is primarily due to declining numbers of piglets under 20 kilograms and young pigs between 20 and 50 kilograms in weight, which fell short of the previous year's values by almost four and a good eight percent respectively. A good eight percent less was also determined in breeding sows and breeding boars. Pig production is therefore likely to decline in the future.
