Having acquired Smithfield Foods, the Chinese company Shuanghui hopes to gain access to in-depth knowledge about meat processing, in order to meet the growing demand from Chinese consumers for safe food.
Exports of fish and fish preparations surged by 11.26 percent during the first seven months of the current fiscal year as compared to the corresponding period of last year.
Austevoll Seafoods on Tuesday reported an increase in profit to NOK 3.62 billion for the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to NOK 2.73 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012.
For the fourth quarter of 2013, Lerøy Seafood Group reported its highest turnover in the company's history — a total of NOK 3.23 billion, up from NOK 2.41 billion in the same period last year.
Legal Sea Foods CEO is calling for stricter safety checks for carbon monoxide (CO) at all the company's restaurants after an incident on Long Island over the weekend left one restaurant manager dead.
Welsh Beef producers are voicing concern over the beef price difficulties with farmers calling on the meat trade to recognise how current negative short term price signals could impact on longer term producer confidence.
Finished pig prices remain five to six per cent up year-on-year, despite the typical new year dip in prices post the festive season, according to the latest analysis from Quality Meat Scotland (QMS).
The Russian ban on pork imports from the EU remains the number one topic of conversation throughout Europe. However, the EU slaughter pig prices are staying on the level so far achieved this week.
ABP has told AgriLand that the claims cited in a UK press article to the effect that meat unfit for human consumption could have entered the food supply chain are “entirely without foundation”.
The United States and Canada have agreed to adopt common standards for naming meat cuts in an effort to facilitate trade, the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service reported.
Cattle and calves on feed at feedlots with capacity of 1,000 head or more declined 3 percent Feb. 1 to 10.8 million head, the US Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service reported.
Newfoundland fishery officials will conclude a lobster license buy-back program at the end of March after nearly three years of successfully reducing fishing capacity in Fortune Bay
Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski questioned this week whether the Chinese ban on shellfish from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest might be about more than safety.