Published: Jul 10, 2012

The Secretary General of Fisheries, Carlos Dominguez, announced the reopening of the mackerel fishery to mitigate the problems of the coastal fleet.

Published: Jul 10, 2012

NOAA Fisheries Service has announced that federal waters from 9 to 200 nautical miles off Texas will open to shrimp trawling at 30 minutes after official sunset, local time, on 15 July, 2012, corresponding to the time Texas opens its waters to shrimp traw

Published: Jul 10, 2012

The Cruse Meats Harvest Facility’s new building opened July 5, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Published: Jul 10, 2012

On the same day CKE Restaurants took a similar stand against suppliers’ use of gestation housing, Kraft Foods’ Oscar Mayer brand announced on July 6 plans to transition away from this traditional means of sow housing in favor of alternatives by the end of

Published: Jul 10, 2012

US families are preparing meals with recipes more now than in recent years, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company.

Published: Jul 10, 2012

Elanco Food Solutions is introducing a new post-harvest carcass rinse to reduce E. coli and Salmonella pathogens in beef-processing facilities.

Published: Jul 10, 2012

Nestlé is using zero gravity research to develop its understanding of the foam technology used in its products.

Published: Jul 10, 2012

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced today that the first shipment of Canadian lambs successfully entered Vietnam. The first ever commercial sale of Canadian live ruminants to Vietnam, worth $50 000, is paving the way for an expanded market.

Published: Jul 09, 2012

India ranks second in the global production of fruits and vegetables. This is primarily due to the climatic conditions in India are favourable for a large number of horticulture crops such as fruits, vegetables and root and tuber crops, ornamental, medici

Published: Jul 09, 2012

Swiss conglomerate Syngenta is planning to set up a corn and sunflower seed processing facility in Cordoba province, Argentina, with an investment of $50m.

Published: Jul 09, 2012

Wisconsin governor Walker has announced that Wisconsin will be the preferred supplier of dairy goods and services to the Shanghai Dairy.

Published: Jul 07, 2012 By: Vladislav Vorotnikov

Russia has banned the import of pork from two US and Canadian meat companies after the antibiotics tetracycline was detected in the meat. The ban came into effect on 3 July.

Published: Jul 07, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

More than 140 jobs are under threat at a Scottish frozen sausage factory as a result of European legislation, according to a union official.

Published: Jul 07, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Union representatives of workers at Vion’s Broxburn meat plant in Scotland have slammed “the catastrophic news” that its closure threatens more than 1,700 jobs.

Published: Jul 07, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Italian dairy giant Parmalat has announced plans to close three plants in the country in an effort to improve its efficiency and compete with low-priced private label milk.

Published: Jul 07, 2012

Sharad Pawar, agriculture minister, today called for making Indian fisheries globally competitive by moving towards greater commercialisation and value addition.

Published: Jul 07, 2012 By: Caroline Scott-Thomas

Canadian natural and organics group SunOpta has introduced a new rice fiber ingredient made from rice hulls, which the company says allows formulators to add clean label fiber without the bulk of rice bran.

Published: Jul 07, 2012

The United Nations' food body Thursday sharply lowered its forecast for world cereal production in 2012-13 due to dry weather concerns for the U.S. corn crop, but said that the overall supply and demand situation remains adequate.

Published: Jul 07, 2012

U.S. farmers will harvest 13.641 billion bushels of corn in 2012 and a U.S. soybean crop of 3.161 billion bushels, according to projections made by private analytical firm Informa Economics, sources said.

Published: Jul 07, 2012

The continuing drought in the upper Midwest and other parts of the US is increasing the risk to livestock and crops, according to a report on WLFI.com.