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Smithfield Foods has agreed to pay US$75 million to settle a consumer lawsuit that accused Smithfield foods and other major meat producers of price-fixing pork prices by restricting supply in the US$20 billion per year US pork sector, Reuters reported.

Malaysia-based Dindings Poultry Development Centre Sdn Bhd (DPDC), a partially-owned subsidiary of Malayan Flour Mills Bhd (MFM), has received a one month extension to submit a written submission in response to allegations by the Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) that the company was involved in poultry feed price ...

Ground has broken in Missouri, the United States, on a US$30 million renovation and expansion at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicines Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory.

A case taken by a community coalition in Senegal to close a fishmeal plant could have implications for the expansion of production in the region, which has seen major expansion by, specifically, Chinese operators, alongside plants built by European, Russian and Turkish operators.

The Fiji Ministry of Agriculture said it has released 14 improved cattle breeds to farmers at the Nacocolevu Research Station in Sigatoka town as part of the ministrys efforts to improve cattle genetics, FBC News reported.

Norway has proposed a new resource rent tax on aquaculture, with effect from January 1, 2023, which will affect producers of salmon, trout and rainbow trout.

Tiba Biotech, a pre-clinical biopharmaceutical company, has entered into a five-year agreement with the Australian state government of New South Wales to develop next-generation mRNA vaccines against emergency animal diseases that threaten Australias livestock industry and domestic food security.

US farmers are urging their government to challenge a Mexican ban on genetically modified (GM) corn under the terms of a regional free trade agreement, threatening both countries with billions of dollars in economic damage, Reuters reported.

The Dutch government said they will cull about 201,000 chickens on a farm in Emmen city, Drenthe province, north of the country, after a highly infectious strain of bird flu was detected there, The Straits Times reported.

The Buenos Aires Grains Exchange (BdeC) said that the recent rains in the country were insufficient to reverse the effects of the drought in Argentinas main breadbasket and that a decline in wheat yields is likely for the major grain-producing nation, Reuters reported.