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Meatco restarted limited slaughter on 27 and 28 October, using cattle from its own feedlot after a 30-day quarantine, and sold the beef domestically. Savanna Beef Processors stopped all processing and sent about 240 workers on leave amid a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Namibia's FMD-free zone.
Meatco also cut the prices it pays producers for November.
The foot-and-mouth outbreak reduces Namibian beef processing and export capacity, which is a localized disruption with little direct effect on global feed grain or meal prices.
windhoekpost.comWindhoek Post NewsdeskNov 3, 2026Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
