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The German Agricultural Society (DLG) has launched several initiatives for Ukraine at EuroTier 2022.

Wheat experts said the 2023 US winter wheat crop is already being affected by drought in the centre of the southern Plains, even as planting is about halfway complete, Reuters reported.

Grieg Seafood ASA has appointed Jennifer Woodland as its new managing director for its operations in British Columbia, Canada, effective October 12.

Cattle farmers in Ireland are being urged to reject low quotes by factories and sell high as prices in the UK and EU have strengthened over the past week, the Irish Examiner reported.

Egyptian poultry farmers are culling their chicks because of a feed shortage, resulting in higher chicken and egg prices and a worsening food crisis in the country, the Middle East News Agency reported.

The use of new technologies and automation in chicken productions at the local level in the Dominican Republic has sped up and multiplied the production of chicken meat to such an extent that there is now a surplus in the country.

The province of Iloilo, the Philippines, has logged a suspected African swine fever (ASF) case, despite a ban on the entry of pork from other parts of the country with confirmed ASF cases, the Manila Bulletin reported last week.

Angel Yeast has announced it aims to play a larger role in increasing peoples access to nutritious food and making food systems more inclusive and sustainable, as part of events to commemorate World Food Day on October 16.

Mexicos Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is working with the countrys pork and poultry industries to design traceability systems that make possible to know the origin, transit and final destination of a meat.

The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), an umbrella body of poultry farmers in the country, recently lamented that insecurity, lack of financial support and rural roads in a weak state are hampering increased egg production and limiting outputs.