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Arief Prasetyo Adi, head of Indonesias National Food Agency (Bapanas), said the country will export corn to Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam this year, The Star reported.

A research team led by the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia has developed a tool to help the global beef industry simultaneously reduce costs and greenhouse gas emissions while meeting demand for meat.

Cattlemens Heritage, an Iowa, US corporation with its roots in livestock production and barn construction, will build a US$520 million beef processing facility in Mills County, Iowa, the United States.

The state government of Terengganu, Malaysia, has identified 120 hectares of land in the Setiu district to be developed as a hub for layer poultry farming to tackle the states egg supply shortage and avoid dependence on imported food sources.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said the Philippines may increase its production and imports of pork and poultry this year, driven by stable demand and the extension of lower import tariffs for pork, The Philippine Star reported.

Feed buyers in South Korea purchased four cargoes of up to 250,000 metric tonnes Australian feed wheat, fuelling talks that corn substitution may have begun due to high US prices and tight global supplies until June, Hellenic Shipping News reported.

Luca Mantovani will be appointed as managing director of Addcon GmbH and ADDCON EUROPE GmbH, effective as of January 9.

CHS Inc. and Cargill, two of the United States leading agribusinesses, announced on January 13 the intent to expand the scope of their joint venture, TEMCO LLC, by adding the Cargill-owned export grain terminal in Houston, Texas.

The pig population in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, reached 5.78 million head, down 5% compared to May 2022 (6.1 million head), according to preliminary data from the State Statistics Office of the German state, as of November 3, 2022.

Brazils pork industry is expected to grow this year, despite economic uncertainties.