The US beef market was mostly negative this week with a 1.9% decline in the carcass equivalent.

The US beef market was mixed this week with both positive and negative shifts in market prices, the US beef carcass equivalent declined by 1.7% week-onweek.

Research conducted by the Elephants Without Borders conservation group indicates that elephant poaching could have caused the deaths of as many as 400 animals in Botswana since 2017.

International beef prices were mixed this week. Week-on-week prices remained relatively stable for US topside (down 0.5%); rump (up 0.7%) and chuck (remained the same).

US prices were mixed this week across the different cuts of beef with the beef carcass equivalent dropping by 1.9% week-on-week.

Listeria in processed meat products from South Africa, E. Coli in romaine lettuce in the US, Salmonella in eggs across Europe and Campylobacter in chicken liver pâté in Australia.