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 ...
Tags: cattle futures, Agriculture
Vasari Global, along with Ethiopian entrepreneur Solomon Wondimneh and his company Ahadu, has opened phase I of a new food production facility in Ethiopia which is valued at around $150m. The launch marks capital deployment of $36m ...
On May 7, 2015, China e-Commerce Innovation and Development Summit opened in Guiyang International Ecological Conference Center. The Summit was jointly directed by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture, ...
Tags: News&Press Release
The China Pavilion has quickly become one of the most popular, attracting nearly 18,000 tourists in two days since the opening of Expo Milano 2015 on Friday. Presenting three themes, China Pavilion, China Corporate United Pavilion and ...
Tags: China Pavilion, Expo Milano
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 ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, poultry meat
The US deputy agriculture secretary Krysta Harden and Honduras secretary of agriculture and Livestock Jacobo Paz have signed an agreement to support agricultural development and trade in Honduras through Food for Progress Program. As part ...
China will improve agricultural subsidy policies in an effort to deepen rural reform, promote agricultural modernization and increase peasants' income, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced Thursday. A total of 14 billion yuan (2.3 ...
US-based establishment Corn Maiden Foods is recalling Tamales with Pork Carnitas, Green Chile & Oregano Wrapped in Corn Husks as it may contain hydrolyzed soy protein, which is not mentioned on the packaging, according to the USDA's Food ...
Tags: Pork Products, Over Mislabelling
A leading domestic rating agency India Ratings has projected a 7.7 per cent growth this fiscal driven by domestic demand. The projection is marginally low from the official growth forecast of 7.9 per cent. "We expect GDP to grow by 7.7 ...
Another week of spring planting's come and gone, and the last 7 days saw farmers make a much bigger stride with corn planting than the previous 2 weeks, and that speedy pace is expected to last through at least the next week, forecasters ...
Tags: Corn, Agriculture
In late March, on the 10 hectare former airstrip at the Gatton campus of The University of Queensland in Brisbane St Lucia, the 3.275MW Gatton Solar Research Facility (the state's largest solar array) was officially opened by Industry and ...
Tags: First Solar, Queensland, PV System
The US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has announced three grants to improve food security by reducing livestock losses to insects and diseases. The $3m grants have been awarded to researchers ...
Tags: Food Security, NIFA
Germany-based Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Wentus has developed a new barrier film for dry food products that claims to stop the entry of potentially harmful mineral oils from the outer packaging into food. The multi-layer barrier ...
The World Trade Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization are joining hands to step up collaboration over trade and food security, as well as other issues such as functioning of international grain markets. As part of the ...
China-based Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd and the Huangpi District People's Government in Wuhan City have entered into an investment cooperation agreement to construct a gallium arsenide (GaAs) thin-film solar cell R&D and manufacturing ...
Tags: Solar Cells, gallium arsenide