The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a consumer update that a brand of genetically engineered (GE) salmon is indeed safe for sale and for consumption by humans. After an “exhaustive and rigorous scientific” review, ...
US-based agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has opened two manufacturing plants in China in order to increase its capacity to meet the growing demand in the country for value added food ingredients and animal nutrition ...
Tags: ADM, Animal Feed, premix products
Australian business magnate Gina Rinehart has purchased Glencoe Station in New South Wales for $30m, to expand her Wagyu beef operation. The Station, which is a 10,000 hectare property in north of Dubbo, is situated 20km away from the ...
Tags: Gina Rinehart, beef, angus herd
Beef might be off the Christmas menu for many Australians this year with prices continuing to rise dramatically. Over the past year, Australian domestic beef prices have more than doubled with drought hitting Australian farms hard. Yet, ...
Tags: Beef, Meat Prices, Lamb, Bacon
Land O’Lakes announced third quarter financial results, reporting net sales of $2.62bn and net earnings of $8.2m for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 2015 Year-to-date net earnings were $188 million on sales of $9.74 billion. Net ...
Tags: Land O'Lakes, Animal feed
Canadian fruit and vegetable processor Pride Pak is building a new fresh fruit and vegetable processing facility in Orleans County in Medina, New York. Located in the 13 acre Medina Business Park, the new 68,000 ft2 facility will be a ...
Subway is planning to serve poultry products made from turkey and chicken raised without antibiotics. The move comes after several consumer groups came down heavily on the company for its lack of transparency in providing specific ...
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In 2014, the Ministry of Commerce sincerely implemented the spirits of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the third and fourth plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, persisted in seeking progress ...
When corn is cheap, hogs get plentiful. The annual Pork Powerhouses ranking of the 25 largest producers in the U.S. shows a gain of 128,000 sows in the past year. With two new packing plants set to open in 2017, producers are gearing up to ...
Tags: corn, Pork, Smithfield Foods
SunOpta, a leading global company focused on organic, non-genetically modified and specialty foods, will participate in Natural Products Expo East being held in Baltimore, MD from September 17 - 19, 2015. SunOpta will showcase its healthy ...
Tags: SunOpta, USDA, PVP, fruit snack
Using grain bins as a marketing strategy has a lot of appeal this year, as the farm markets hover at or below cost-of-production levels. Some farmers choose to use storage to help capture higher cash basis prices later in the season or to ...
Tags: Grain Storage, soybeans
Russia has started the process of destroying banned Western food products on the border days before the presidential decree ordering the same comes into force. Signed on 29 July, the decree enters into force today and orders the ...
Tags: cheese, meat, vegetables
Northwest Iowa has become the epicenter of the bird flu story that's developed over the last few weeks, with continued culls ordered as more birds -- now more than 20 million -- become exposed to the virus. Yet, now there's news that the ...
Tags: livestock, pork processing, pork
The successful and innovative Australian grocery chain, Harris Farm Markets, has introduced an ‘alternative meat cuts’ range. The range, sold as the “Curious Cuts” line, uses meat not normally sold to ...
Archer Daniels Midland Company and Quality Liquid Feeds have entered into a 50-50 joint venture for the production and sale of liquid feed supplements for livestock. The joint venture consists of four liquid feed production facilities ...
Tags: food manufacture, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Quality Liquid Feeds