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New Zealands Westland Milk cooperative, owned by Chinas largest dairy company Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group (Yili), has purchased competitor Canary Foods for an undisclosed price, Just Food reported.

The movement of livestock in search of pastures and water due to the ongoing drought in Kenya has seen an increase in transboundary diseases mainly in the countrys ASAL counties.

Philippines agriculture group Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (Sinag) has blamed traders and middlemen for the increase in retail meat prices in the country, The Manila Times reported.

The Dutch government has announced a cull of about 102,000 chickens at a farm in the northern city of Kiel-Windeweer after a highly infectious strain of bird flu was detected there, The Straits Times reported.

The Dutch government has ordered poultry farmers in the country to confine their birds to stop the spread of highly infectious bird flu, Nasdaq reported.

The Norwegian Seafood Council said Norway has exported NOK 109 billion (~US$10.4 billion; NOK 10 = US$0.95) between January to September 2022, a new record and NOK 24.3 billion (~US$2.3 billion) or 29% higher compared to the same nine months in 2021, Fish Information & Services reported.

Grace Fu, Singapores Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, said the country focuses on farming resource efficient foods over poultry because of limitations in land, workers, energy, and water, Channel News Asia reported.

Low water levels at the southern stretches of the Mississippi River has resulted in a commercial barge traffic backlog, stopping shipments of US cash crops like corn and soybeans as well as other commodities on the important waterway, Reuters reported.

Louis Dreyfus Company Asia Pte. Ltd. (LDC) and Longriver Farms announced last month that the companies have entered into an agreement for the acquisition of Emerald Grain Pty. Ltd. by LDC.

USDA unit Agricultural Research Services (ARS) Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory opened its new research facility during a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony October 4 at the US National Poultry Research Center in Athens, Georgia, the United States.