A combination of demand for rare aquatic species as well as government subsidies and propaganda is driving cultivation and consumption of Chinese giant salamanders in aquaculture bases across the country.
Six salmon farms in Chile have recently earned the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA)’s best aquaculture practices (BAP) certification, according to a GAA release.
Echoing sentiments expressed last fall at the US Grains Council's Export Exchange 2012, the Taiwanese feed industry reaffirmed their preference for US corn during meetings held in Taiwan late last month.
The preliminary national average price received by farmers for all wheat in April was $7.52 per bu, down 26c from $7.78 in March but up 41c from $7.11 in April 2012.
The total amount of edible liquid product from shell eggs broken during March was 226,140,000 lbs, up 8% from February and up 1% from March 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its latest Egg Products report.
Increasing awareness of black garlic throughout the world has steadily increased demand for the product, even as supplies of it coming out of China remain steady.
The German advertising agency Serviceplan recently used an innovative technique - attaching cartoons to Fyffes's bananas, using laser and a special printer.
Tianli Agritech, a Chinese producer of breeder hogs, market hogs and black hogs, has started the sale of its branded black hog products through retail outlets in Wuhan City.
As Norwegian fish farming company Cermaq approaches decision time on whether to accept a buyout offer from rival Marine Harvest or stick with its plans to buy Peruvian fishmeal company Copeinca。
Rising prices for fish and shrimp in the domestic market as well as partial recovery in export markets have given China’s seafood firms much optimism about 2013 earnings.
Several meat, poultry and food retail associations urged Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to delay implementation of the proposed country-of-origin labeling (COOL) rule.
Calling Hillshire’s packaged lunchmeat business “atrophied” this past February, Mr. Connolly said the company was in the process of getting it “back on the rails.”
Corn futures prices recovered some overnight after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said late May 6 corn planting in the 18-major states stood at 12% completed as of May 5.
Nine cooked food stores that sold fake mutton in Shanghai have been temporarily or permanently closed and 70 kilograms of fake mutton has been destroyed, Shanghai's food safety authority said on Monday.
Florida tomato growers re-contesting the deal made with their Mexican counterparts over the revision of the suspension agreement for imported tomatoes back in March.