Until recently the river Allen’s native White-clawed crayfish population, one of the few remaining in Dorset, has managed to remain free from disease but dead and distressed crayfish were recently spotted in the river in July.
The European Commission has repealed the measures adopted against the Faroe Islands in August 2013 following their unsustainable fishery on Atlanto-Scandian herring.
A labour-hire contractor which short-changed 10 overseas workers has agreed to back-pay its former employees more than $20,000 following an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Finnish meat processor HKScan saw net sales reach €967.1 million for the first half of the year compared to €1,038.4 million for the same period last year.
China has barred pork imports from six US processing plants and six cold storage facilities as part its ban on the use of a feed additive that promotes lean muscle growth.
The Philippine Department of Agriculture is to closely monitor inventories of poultry meat and price movements down to the farmgate level to address what it calls a "temporary tightness" in the supply of the commodity due to "distribution issues".
The prices of major farm produce in China fell slightly last week despite rises in meats and fish according to a survey of prices in 36 medium and large cities by the Ministry of Commerce MOFCOM.
The board of directors of Danish Crown has approved the plan to move production from international meat group’s Faaborg site in Denmark to one of Tulip UK’s production facilities in Cornwall, England.
A new study has demonstrated that the immune system can produce cells with stem cell properties that can create different types of cells such as neurons in the adult animal.
Dry conditions in the northern North Island and continued land use change in the South Island saw New Zealand’s sheep numbers decrease 3.2 per cent over the 2013-14 season, while beef cattle numbers increased 1.6 per cent.
First Minister Alex Salmond has chaired a meeting of the Scottish Government Resilience Committee (SGoRR) to discuss the impact of the immediate Russian trade embargo on food imports from the West.
An outstanding business opportunity for professional persons and enterprises engaged in the animal protein production in China and abroad is being arranged in Beijing, from 20 – 25 September 2014.
A group of chicken growers on Sunday said there has been a shortage of supply in Metro Manila after Typhoon Glenda (Rammasun) barreled across Luzon last month.
Northern Ireland based food company, Moy Park, has invested in a new, state of the art chick delivery lorry that will help the company increase sales to almost 5 million parent stock breeders this year.
