US senator Kirsten Gillibrand has launched a new bill that would improve the recall process for meat and poultry products, giving the USDA mandatory recall authority over contaminated products. This comes after a new investigation ...
A new strain of bird flu, which originated in the Western US and infected several commercial chicken and turkey farms, has spread to Indiana, according to the US Department of Agriculture. A backyard poultry flock in Indiana was tested ...
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Year-over-year prices for finished steers remain high, but it looks like in general, cattle futures have peaked for the season, and that's likely to trim gains heading into summer. The cattle business has responded to supply-driven price ...
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According to the monitoring of MOFCOM, the prices of farm produce in 36 large and medium-sized cities continued to fall, and prices of production means in circulation stopped falling and picked up last week (April 27-March 3). Last week, ...
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Saudi Arabia has imposed a ban on imports of poultry meat and egg products from the Canadian province of Ontario over the detection of avian influenza at three farms. Recently, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed the ...
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Ayrshire-based egg producer Chalmerston Farm Eggs is set to increase production with the support of £1.1m finance package from HSBC. The farm is expected to benefit from a free range poultry shed that will help increase its stock of ...
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Denmark-based packaging company Farch Plast is planning to tap markets beyond the European Union with plans of expanding in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, South Africa, the Middle East and Israel. Faerch Plast specialises in ...
US based specialty food distributor The Chefs’ Warehouse has completed the acquisition of Del Monte Capitol Meat and its affiliated companies for an initial price of $185.5m. The initial price of this purchase also includes the ...
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on April 6 that two more flocks of commercial Minnesota turkey have been infected with the lethal avian flu, out of which one flock is already in an quarantine zone. According to the USDA, ...
US-based Atlas Holdings has acquired the North American Foam Trays and Absorbent Pads (TAP) businesses of Sealed Air Corporation for an undisclosed amount and launched its new operating company Novipax. Novipax will be operating five ...
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Northern Ireland's Poultry giant Moy Park has invested in its 18,500ft2 poultry development house in Colorado to bring together best farming practices, leading technology and science under one roof. As reported in The Poultry Site, Moy ...
The French government has granted €15m in a bid to support the country’s poultry sector to overcome the effects of the abolition of the EU subsidies on the export of frozen chicken to third countries. The European Commission ...
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A commercial poultry flock in Minnesota was tested positive for a strain of H5N2 avian influenza, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). This comes after two other farms in Pope and Lac qui Parle counties of western ...
Bunge North America’s Cincinnati-based grain terminal was bought last week by local storage and logistics business Vogt Warehouse, stated Bunge. "We had already determined the Cincinnati location did not fit our long-term strategy ...
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Arkansas-based poultry producer Tyson Foods Inc. has cut out gentamicin, a key human antibiotic, from its hatcheries. The US' largest chicken producer told Reuters that gentamicin and other similar antibiotics had been removed from its 35 ...
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