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The Philippines Department of Agriculture and Alaska Milk Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish the Philippines-Netherlands Dairy Excellence Centre, which aims to increase milk output in the country, ABS-CBN reported.

Barbados has announced a temporary ban on imports of live birds, poultry, and poultry products from the UK because of confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks there, Loop Caribbean News reported.

John Thompson and Sons Limited, a leading animal feed manufacturer in Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom, will be sentenced for two health and safety breaches in January next year, a court has heard.

Major US meatpacker Tyson Foods has projected full-year sales above estimates from Wall Street, which indicates increased demand for its more expensive chicken and beef even though the country is coping with decades-high levels of inflation, Newsbreak reported.

Norway-based seafood group SalMar will retrench 851 employees, blaming the countrys planned aquaculture tax for the move.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) said Thailands shrimp production has halved from its peak in 2022 due to the spread of diseases, with the Thai government expected to import shrimp to meet domestic demand and support small-scale manufacturers, Fish Information & Services reported.

European traders said importers in China have bought two cargoes of wheat from France to be shipped between January and March 2023, adding to major purchases this season for the lower-protein French crop, Nasdaq reported.

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) recently awarded a US$500,000 Rapid Outcomes from Agriculture Research (ROAR) grant to the United States Department of Agriculture and US$150,000 to Kansas State University (US) to develop safe and rapidly deployable vaccines for African swine fever (ASF), to mi ...

Chicken supplier Moy Park has reversed its decision to close one of its UK plants, thus saving 175 jobs.

Vietnam has exported US$2.06 billion worth of pangasius so far this year, 60% up year-on-year, with China the key export market for the fish, surpassing the US, Fish Information & Services reported.