MEAT PRICES – OECD/FAO

BY KEITH NUTHALLAN INTERNATIONAL assessment of commodity markets until 2014 is predicting that increased production worldwide will depress the price of traded meat. Written by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), this 'Agricultural Outlook' predicts slow but steady falls in beef prices, because of the gradual improvement in US production, and poultry, following "continued investment in integrated poultry systems, particularly in developing countries". Also, over-production globally ...


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