Dairy Crest’s sale of St Hubert will “transform its balance sheet”,according to City analysts, after the processor released an interim management statement for the first quarter of its financial year 2013.
Food scientists at Cornell University, US, have identified predominant spore-forming bacteria in milk and their unique enzyme activity, a finding that could help to extend the shelf-life of dairy products and improve their quality.
Scorching drought conditions throughout the U.S. prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department Wednesday to declare 39 new counties in eight states as disaster areas, making farmers and livestock producers there eligible for emergency low-interest government l
While the corn and soybean crops have taken the worst beating from this year's drought so far, the nation's livestock farmers aren't faring a whole lot better.
Price spikes in the US grains market fuelled by a lengthy drought will be felt by bakery and snack manufacturers around September, according to an industry analyst.
Dairy Crest is in line to meet is full year expectations, after increased sales and a fall in price paid for fuel and plastic helped drive the firm’s return to a “satisfactory level of profitability.”
Fish are cheap in Japan and getting cheaper. Prices at the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market in Tsukiji, Chuo Ward, peaked in the first half of the 1990s at 996 yen ($12.5) per kilogram, but have since lost 20% of their value. Fish traded at 802
The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), a regional fisheries organisation of 17 member states spanning the Caribbean region, concluded its eighth scientific meeting in Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines.
More than 2,500 families in the southernmost province of Ca Mau are benefiting from a new rice-shrimp farming model, according to the province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The Department of Agriculture is allotting an initial P67 million to bankroll several agricultural and fishery infrastructure projects in Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte, to transform it into a sufficient producer of rice, white corn, other staple crops
South Korea has decided to scrap its Plan to resume whaling for scientific research, a government official said Tuesday, after the the decision sparked criticism.
On Friday 13 July the masters and owner of the Anglo Dutch vessel Angsar (E104) were sentenced by North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court for failing to maintain an accurate logbook.
Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, has announced that the Government of Canada will make significant investments to repair, construct and maintain small craft harbours across Canada.
So far 2,100 exhibitors from 50 countries have signed up for EuroTier 2012. With 30 per cent more exhibition space, the show will be held in Hanover from 13 to 16 November 2012.
NOAA has announced that it will adjust the 2012 Georges Bank yellowtail flounder quotas for both commercial scallop and groundfish fisheries to preserve fishing opportunities for both industries.
H.J. Baker & Bros., Inc. and Vimifos S.A. de C.V., a Mexico-based animal nutrition company, have reached an agreement to sell H.J. Baker PRO-PLUS and PRO-PAK products to the poultry feed industry in Mexico.
Corn crop conditions were deteriorating sharply in a number of key growing states, including Illinois, Indiana and Ohio in the Central states, the US Department of Agriculture said in its Crop Progress report released July 16.
