Smithfield Foods Inc, the world's largest pork producer, said on Tuesday it will soon raise half of its hogs on feed that does not contain the additive ractopamine, a lean muscle promoting drug that has been banned in China and Russia.
Farm-raised Atlantic salmon maintains its healthy levels of omega-3 fatty acids when baked to the proper temperature, and actually decreases the presence of fatty acid oxidation byproducts.
Because of large weather changes in recent weeks, Mexico’s fruit and vegetables sector is facing a possible price increase of 100%, in particular in regard to tomatoes.
Statistics NZ says in its latest seafood industry survey that salmon, tarakihi and gurnard are the most commonly available fish species in supermarkets and fish shops.
Chinese agricultural authorities are racing to skill up officials and insurance firms to extend subsidized insurance coverage to the country’s highly fragmented aquaculture sector.
New reports from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) forecast strong cereal production this year with a new record expected for coarse grains.
Korean weekly wholesale prices for imported beef this week were reportedly steady on last week, with the exception of US short rib prices which eased another 2% on last week at KRW12,800/kg.
The FAO Food Price Index averaged 215.5 points in April 2013, up two points (1.0 per cent) from its revised March value of 213.2 points and from April last year.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has filed administrative actions against four produce companies after they allegedly violated the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act
The volume of export-quality or sashimi-grade fresh mature yellowfin tuna landed at General Santos City, the “Tuna Capital of the Philippines,” is getting fewer year-on-year.
Majestic Seafood’s new K85 million (US$38 million) tuna processing facility at Malahang in Lae will be commissioned next month by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.
A key Chinese shrimp exporter is blaming competition from Ecuador and Thailand for a woeful 2012 financial performance that will disappoint investors funding capacity expansion in the country’s seafood sector.
In the first forecast for the 2013-14 marketing year, US corn carryover on Sept. 1, 2014, was projected at 2,004 million bushels, up 1,245 million bushels, or 164 percent, from an upwardly revised 759 million bushels in 2013.