Brazil brings 2.5% fewer hides into leather pipeline in 2011
02/04/2012
Brazil’s National Statistics Institute, IBGE, has confirmed that the country’s cattle slaughter for the full year last year was 28.8 million, a 1.6% drop compared to 2010. Beef industry leaders in Brazil have said a decline in exports to Europe and the high price of beef on the domestic market in 2011, leading to consumers eating more pork and...