The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has temporarily banned imports of shrimp from Asia following fears of the spread of Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS).
The voluntary acceptance period for the offer by Norwegian seafood farmer Marine Harvest to buy out competitor Cermaq has expired, and due to lack of interest by Cermaq, the buyout offer is officially off the table.
MG Waldbaum, a subsidiary of Michael Foods, has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of Primera Foods – a US-based producer of processed egg products.
PepsiCo Inc is taking its Muller yogurt brand nationwide expanding its portfolio of healthier foods at a time that U.S. consumers are increasingly shunning traditional soft drinks.
The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has approved a takeover of the Vion UK's poultry business by 2 Sisters Food, following an extensive review of the transaction.
The prices of catfish exports to the US increased for a very short time before dropping dramatically now. This has been attributed to the unreasonable export strategy.
Increased demand for expensive fish in China and Asia has led to a leap in the worldwide price of tuna, oysters, shrimp and salmon, according to a report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Turkey eggs in incubators on June 1, 2013, totaled 26.4 million, down 13 percent from a year ago, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Wheat buyers in Asia are looking to replace Indian and Australian cargoes in the lower-end feed grain market with cheaper supplies from the Black Sea, which will be returning to the region after a three-year gap.
A wholesale produce market run by a private cooperative will open on July 1 in Havana, the first such market since Cuba monopolized wholesale operations in the 1960s, state media said on Thursday.
Healthy profits are expected for chicken companies this year, a sharp turnaround from two years ago when the industry was hurt by the recession and high feed prices.