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LivestockA USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report says high milk and beef prices slowed the EU herd's contraction last year, but costs, regulation, succession gaps and disease keep up the long-term decline.
LivestockThe Rosario exchange says export prices for shank and forequarter cuts to China have climbed to $7,700 a tonne from $5,400 a year ago, while Argentine cow slaughter is down 13 percent so far this year.
Milk was 16.6% cheaper and cereals 5.6% cheaper in the second quarter of 2026 than a year earlier, with output prices down in 20 member states, led by Denmark and Ireland, while energy rose 22% and fertiliser 13.4%, squeezing margins across the bloc.
The Moscow regional government has banned movement of cattle, milk and feed in and out of affected towns and cancelled agricultural fairs; the Irkutsk region near Lake Baikal declared its own quarantine earlier in the week with culling ordered, months after a spring disease outbreak in Siberia led t
Under an agreement with the European Energy Exchange, CME will launch its own European dairy indices, futures and options and inherit the EEX butter and skimmed-milk-powder indices before the end of 2027, weeks before Euronext launches rival contracts on 19 October.
Cepea's Mato Grosso do Sul calf index is up 7.83% from January to August against 5.89% for São Paulo fed cattle and 1.77% for lean cattle; earlier female culling has thinned the calf crop, while cautious feedlots facing uncertainty over China, Europe and the US have kept lean-cattle gains modest.
