US-based agricultural and food company Cargill has announced to cut the use of antibiotics in its US cattle supply by 20%, a move which is likely to impact 1.2 million cattle annually. From now, Cargill plans to reduce the shared-class ...
Tags: Cargill, Beef Cattle
The US Senate Agricultural Committee has passed a bill which paves the way for a single national labeling law for food made with genetically engineered ingredients, while doing away with state by state labeling. With this bill, which ...
Netherlands-based global scientific company DSM has launched new Egg Yolk Pigmentation Guidelines to help produce the desired yolk colour and has added a new colour to YolkFan, which is a tool to measure yolk colour. The addition of the ...
The Bradley Smart Smoker is the new automatic, electric food smoker from Bradley Smoker. It features innovative iSmoke Technology, that allows you to connect with and control the smoker from Bluetooth-enabled devices in real-time. It's ...
Tags: Bradley Smoker, New Electric Food Smoker, Ismoke Technology
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking comments on its proposed approach to revising infant formula requirements in the Food Standards Code. FSANZ Chief Executive Officer Mr Steve McCutcheon said although breastfeeding is ...
Tags: Infant Formula, Food Standards
Australian agrifood company TasFoods is planning to acquire North West Tasmanian chicken producer Nichols Poultry for A$12.55m ($8.98m). Under the acquisition terms, TasFoods would purchase Nichols' poultry processing facility, 91 ...
A group of consumers is pledging never to buy Lilydale free-range chickens again after finding out the chickens are fed genetically modified (GM) feed. The issue arose by complaints on social media followed by a response by Lilydale on ...
Tags: Free-range chickens, non-GM food
Organic milk and meat contain approximately 50 per cent more omega-3 fatty acids than non-organic options according to a new study published yesterday in Volume 115, Issue 5 of the British Journal of Nutrition. The largest study of its ...
Tags: Organic milk, meat
US-based chicken producer Pilgrim’s Pride has announced to invest $190m in a strategic growth plan to expand production of Pilgrim’s Pierce Chicken brand. The growth plan, which was initiated in the fourth quarter of 2015, ...
Tags: Pilgrim's Pride, prepared foods
An Australian farmer has struck purple gold selling beetroot juice to a Dubai prince looking for a secret weapon to feed his racing horses. Speaking to The Weekly Times about his lucky turn of events, Victorian farmer Sean Croft said he ...
Tags: Beetroot Juice, Sean Croft
The Norwegians have been fishing for their livelihoods and exporting their seafood worldwide for hundreds of years, whether providing cod that helps feed the world’s largest cod market, the UK, or shipping salted cod to the ...
Tags: Seafood, cod market
On the 30th December 2015, GRENERGY formalized the sale of its two last solar photovoltaic plants in Spain, both producing under decree 9/2013 of July 12 which establishes the new remuneration system for renewable energy replacing decrees ...
Tags: PV Projects, Sloar Cell
With oil product stocks at moderate levels, Shandong's teapot refineries have kept refinery run rates relatively high, which is supporting demand for feedstock crudes, sources said this week. Regular importer Beifang Asphalt Fuel in ...
Tags: oil product, bitumen
Today we tend to take LED video displays for granted. Indeed, they became common features in our towns and we mostly pay attention to their outward quality parameters. we believe time has come to spell out major technical principles of ...
Tags: LED Video Displays, LED video, Chipshow
First-tier China-based PV module makers, viewing that cost for crystalline silicon solar cells has risen but they are unable to hike PV module prices, plan to reduce orders released to Taiwan- and China-based solar cell makers, according to ...
Tags: PV Module, Solar Cells