As the purse seine bluefin tuna fishing period gets under way this week, the European Commission is backing a new control and inspection program designed to make sure stocks are sustainably managed.
According to a survey by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the southern province of Dong Nai, foreign direct investment (FDI) companies tend to suffer fewer losses than domestic farms and households when prices of pork and chicken fal
Russian meat producer Cherkizovo has reported net loss of $0.6m for the first quarter of 2013, compared with net income of $39.8m in Q1 2012 due to high grain prices and low pork prices.
Future Food Energy LLC on Monday night proposed to the Scottsbluff, Neb. City Council a plan to build a 358,000-square foot beef slaughter facility that would process up to 375,000 cattle per year and eventually employ up to 550 workers.
Sharon Packing Co. Inc. in Farrell, Pa. will be open a few more weeks, "maybe three, maybe two" while it distributes its remaining inventory, and then the company will close.
Gulf Daily News said that MPs in the Gulf state on Tuesday (21 May) voted in favor of an outright pork ban, which would stipulate jail terms of up to two month and/or fines of up to BD300 ($800) for those caught with such products.
The nation's largest beef producer, Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), has sold three dry land and grazing properties in central Queensland for $23 million, amid a crisis in northern Australian cattle land.
Making the eat “less but better” red meat message profitable for the food industry, farmers and the rural economy is crucial for developing a more sustainable food system.
Continued demand for high-grade seafood in China alongside a clampdown on import “grey channels” demand that exporting countries get behind national brands, said one marketing expert in Shanghai.
New Zealand fishing company Sanford reported a 5.5 percent profit increase to NZD 14.1 million, up from NZD 13.3 million in the same period last year, for the first six months ending 31 March 2013.
After Peruvian fishmeal and fish oil producer Copeinca declined China Fishery Group’s takeover offer again, the company is now reviewing its options to place a new bid.
The Philippines is still lucky that it is still free from the deadly shrimp disease called Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS) which is now stalking shrimps from all over the world.
