The Super Bowl has always been a big boost to the US chicken industry, but this year's Big Game on Feb. 3 is seen to topple records as Americans, in the words of the National Chicken Council (NCC), will be "winging it" for that favorite sports event.

Production of Turkish poultry products and chicken and turkey slaughterings rose in July compared with the previous month, data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) showed.

There has been a notable reduction in the presence of campylobacter in chickens on sale in the UK, with only 0.8% of them testing positive for the highest level of campylobacter (over 1,000 colony forming units per gramme, or cfu/g), as compared with 3.8% in March 2018, according to the results of a survey published last week by the UK Food Standards Agency.

Eggs recalls are made in Germany, Italy and Malta due to reported cases of salmonella, ending a decade in which occurrences related to the pathogen were reportedly on the decline.

Prices of farm produce in China continued their upward trend in the week ending July 29, with the wholesale price of pork, the country's staple meat, rising 2.2% from the previous week, Xinhua reported, citing data from the Ministry of Commerce.

Easter is a boon to egg producers and sellers, and people in Britain are expected to eat a whopping 180 million hen eggs, or 45 million eggs a day, over the long weekend, according to figures released by the British Egg Industry Council (BEIC).

Since October the US Department of Agriculture has been purchasing US-produced and -processed agricultural products including milk and pork under a "USDA Foods" programme, which has become a big boost to agricultural producers and processors.

EU pork production in August declined slightly compared with both the previous month and August last year as the number of pigs slaughtered fell and carcase weights were lighter.

EU exports of fresh and frozen pork grew over 5% in August to 169,000 tonnes compared with the same month last year, according to the latest data from Eurostat, as reported by AHDB. The value of these exports, however, fell 7% to €362 million (US$411.84 million) due to a 12% fall in achieved export prices.

Argentina is on the verge of signing a deal with the United States that would allow trade of fresh beef for the first time in 17 years, Argentina's international trade secretary, Marisa Bircher, told Reuters.

US pork export value declined in July, reflecting the impact of retaliatory duties imposed by Mexico and China, even if beef exports posted another near-record month.

The European Commission has recommended to the EU Council the opening of negotiations with the US in order to settle a longstanding World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute on export of US beef.

In light of Brexit in March, US lobby groups for agriculture are seeking for an updated trade deal in which UK standards would align closer to those of the US, the BBC reported.

Israel is slated to drastically lower the tariffs imposed on milk and other dairy product imports starting this year as part of an agreement of principles for dairy reform signed by concerned government agencies and industry groups in October last year.

UK exporters are set to benefit from a multimillion pound boost as Japan opened its market to imports of UK beef and lamb on January 10.

The export price of Norwegian fresh salmon during the period Jan. 7-13 decreased 4.1% to NOK63.90 (US$7.48) per kilogramme compared with the previous seven-day period Dec. 31-Jan. 6, according to the latest data released by Statistics Norway on Wednesday, Dec. 19.

Norway's seafood exports last year broke records as volumes shipped out last year reached an all-time high of 2.7 million tonnes worth a new record of NOK 99 billion (US$11.6 billion), up 4% and 5% (or NOK4.6 billion), respectively, compared with 2017.

The US rejected a total of 53 shrimp entry lines in 2018 due to contamination of banned antibiotics. This is slightly below the previous year's 55 and is the smallest number of shrimp entry lines refused for banned antibiotics since 2006, according to a report by the Southern Shrimp Alliance.

Tyson Foods Inc. announced on Monday, Aug. 20, that it has reached a definitive agreement to buy Keystone Foods from Brazilian meatpacker Marfrig Global Foods for $2.16 billion in cash.

Thailand has become one of the world's largest fishery exporters, but an increasing shortage of domestic raw materials has driven this Southeast Asia country to become a large importer of fish products to serve its fishery processing for export.

The Philippine meat-processing industry has now reached an estimated P300 billion (US$5.9 billion) in sales, growing steadily by at least 10% annually and may even expand by more than 12% as the country's per-capita GDP nears the $3,500 mark, according to the Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc. (PAMPI), as reported by the Business Mirror.