Published: Nov 22, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Beef economists are closely monitoring a spike in Australian beef exports into one of the world’s fastest growing economies – China.

Published: Nov 22, 2012 By: Christine Blank

Producers of sustainable Northwest U.S. albacore tuna are promoting their product more in the U.S. after a drop in demand from Europe.

Published: Nov 21, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Cherkizovo has opened a second production line at the Otechestvenniy meat processing facility in Pravdinsk, Kaliningrad region, Russia, with an investment of $15m.

Published: Nov 21, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

US-based Moo & Oink has re-launched its Moo & Oink Pork Chitterlings, just in time for the holidays.

Published: Nov 21, 2012 By: Food Ingredients First

Olympic Seafood AS is pleased to announce a partnership has been reached with Bioriginal to distribute the new Rimfrost Krill collection.

Published: Nov 21, 2012 By: Nicholas Robinson

In a bid to help struggling pork producers, the USA’s National Pork Board (NPB) has approved additional funding to promote the sector.

Published: Nov 21, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Kettyle Irish Foods, the Northern Irish producer of premium dry-aged and dry-cured meats, has won a £1.2 million contract to supply a sustainably produced bacon to a major supermarket chain in the Netherlands.

Published: Nov 21, 2012 By: Carolyn Butler

Most of us are probably aware that eating fish — which is low in saturated fat and high in protein, omega-3 fatty acids and such nutrients as selenium and vitamins D and B2— is an important part of a healthy diet.

Published: Nov 21, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Alaska's 2012 salmon harvest and value came in well below last year, dropping 21% and 30%, respectively.

Published: Nov 20, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Is America's role in the corn export business starting to slip?

Published: Nov 20, 2012 By: Nicholas Robinson

Russian regional leaders are in talks to create a major livestock facility in the eastern regions of Russia after visiting Cherkizovo pork operation.

Published: Nov 20, 2012 By: Jeff Caldwell

The herd did get a trim, but so did corn and soybean prices, which cut into the $50 to $60/head losses that were projected earlier in the year.

Published: Nov 20, 2012 By: Christine Blank

Morrisons’ fresh seafood sales already perform well, but analysts expect them to increase with recently-launched improvements.

Published: Nov 20, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Meat company Cranswick is conducting “unprecedented” negotiations with retailers, as pig feed prices continue to rise, according to City analyst Panmure Gordon.

Published: Nov 20, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Despite the chicken feed cost crunch, Tyson Foods, Springdale, Arkansas, USA, managed to nearly double its fourth quarter profit to $185 million from $97 million a year earlier, even as the chicken and pork producer's sales dipped slightly to $8.37 billio

Published: Nov 19, 2012 By: Nicholas Robinson

Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) has sent a trade delegation to the Far East to open up important trade for the Welsh lamb and beef sectors.

Published: Nov 19, 2012 By: Keith Nuthall

European Commission officials have warned that the European Union’s (EU) annual €140m meat and livestock market intervention budget is facing deep cuts.

Published: Nov 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

After setting a new monthly beef volume record in September, October shipments surged again, reaching 7,524 tonnes swt – up 85 per cent on the previous month and over 600 per cent more than the same period in 2011 (Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and

Published: Nov 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Rising wholesale prices continue to plague seafood retailers and put a damper on their sales. In fact, cost is retailers’ No. 1 challenge in SeaFood Business’ biennial retail survey.

Published: Nov 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Indian shrimp exporters have been hit hard by a ban imposed by Japan in July after the anti-oxidant ethoxyquin was detected in some consignments.