The Meat Industry Suppliers Foundation, the philanthropic organization of the Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) announced five recipients of the foundation’s scholarship program.
Primary industry statistics for the March 2012 quarter show what a boom of a production year it was for most. Total seafood export revenue was up by 9.4% in the March quarter, due to increasing prices and a volume increase of 3.4 per cent.
Patrick J. Schwab and Jeffrey R. Baker have been named to new positions at Hormel Foods Corp. following the upcoming retirements of Douglas R. Reetz and Dennis B. Goettsch.
Poultry certified wholesome during June (ready-to-cook weight) totaled 3.67 billion lbs., down 5 percent from the amount certified in June 2011, according to data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the US Department of Agriculture
An additional 76 counties in six states have been declared primary natural disaster areas due to damage and losses caused by drought conditions, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
A US Department of Agriculture e-newsletter encouraged employees to participate in Meatless Mondays at USDA cafeterias — much to the dismay of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA).
California-based Bridgford Food Processing Corp. was cited for four safety violations at the company’s Chicago meat processing plant after a worker suffered amputations of two fingers while operating a vacuum packaging machine.
Total commercial red meat production in the United States in June 2012 was 4,024 million lbs, down 4% from a month earlier and down 5% from June 2011, the U.S.D.A. said in its latest Livestock Slaughter report.
Butter, turkey, fruit, vegetable and red meat stocks on June 30, 2012, were higher than year-earlier levels, but chicken and cheese stocks were lower, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its latest Cold Storage report.
The Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) 4A in collaboration with the provincial agriculture office has conducted a series of Agri-Pinoy Technical Briefing and Technoklinik in Laguna the latest of which were in the fourth class municipalities of Victoria
In the rivers south of the Stad region, the proportion of escaped farmed salmon was recorded as being lower in 2011 than in previous years. To the north of Stad, the number was higher in 2011 than 2010.
On 8 July, 2012, 46 boxes of freshwater eel fry (elvers) were confiscated by the Quarantine Personnel of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Region 4A (BFAR 4A), writes Anna Merlinna T. Fontanilla, BFAR 4A.
An outbreak of white spot disease has been reported to the OIE by Dr Dabeding Dullah, Department of Agriculture and Agrifood, Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
The European Commission is shortly intending to adopt a legislative proposal aiming to gradually introduce a two year ban on bottom trawling in the deep waters of the North East Atlantic. This plan is causing concern among the fisheries sector.
The Kigembe Fish Hatchery, inaugurated early this year, has up to present produced more than 1.2 million fish fingerlings, with a promise of an increase in production in the near future, writes Mathew Rwahigi.
Salmon in New Zealand are free of commercially significant diseases, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research scientist Andrew Forsythe says.
Leading tra fish exporters agreed to levy a minimum price of $2-2.2 per pound on shipments to the US for the remaining months of the year in a move to ensure fair competition and regain value for Vietnamese tra fish.
As a result of the work of more than 19,000 production units in the fisheries and aquaculture sector, more than 250,000 fishermen from Mexico produced in 2011 1,660,000 tons of seafood.
Seafish has announced that industry trials of revolutionary fishing gear have been successful in reducing ground impact caused by beam trawlers and further reducing fish discards.
The US Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC) announced an initiative to help Mexico deal with an outbreak of avian influenza that is forcing producers to cull millions of birds.
