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Producers surveyed across the United States intend to plant 92.0 million acres of corn in 2023, up 4% from last year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released recently by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania state, US, has proposed a budget of over US$126 million for initiatives to support the states US$7.1 billion poultry sector, as highly pathogenic bird flu spreads throughout the world.

The Philippines Department of Agriculture reported on April 6 that African swine fever (ASF) infection has surged since 2022.

The United Kingdoms National Pig Association (NPA) welcomed Defras commitment to take action to repair what is widely seen as "a broken pork supply chain."

Blue Water Fisheries is aiming to introduce open-ocean fish farming in the waters off the New England region, US, by rearing salmon and trout in submersible fish pens several miles from shore, ABC News reported.

Dates and locations have been announced for the spring European leg of the Alltech ONE World Tour, a series of international events that bring the ideas and inspiration of Alltechs annual ONE Conference to the world.

South Korea has imported 107,113 tonnes of seafood from Russia in March this year, 21% lower compared to the 136,169 tonnes imported in the same period of 2022, Fish Information & Services reported.

French health and safety agency ANSES has endorsed the governments plans to vaccinate millions of poultry birds against bird flu, providing three different scenarios for the introduction of the first such programme in the EU, National Post reported.

Researchers from the United States University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture and Mississippi State University teamed up to investigate the interaction of national slaughter and price spread — the difference between the value of live cattle price and wholesale boxed beef — that ensued following tempo ...

The University of Missouri (MU) Extension (US) is offering free biosecurity workshops in April and May on how to prevent and respond to disease outbreaks in livestock and poultry operations, including backyard flocks.