The Philippines' frozen-pork inventory as of June 18 rose 78.42% to 32,954.66 tonnes from 18,469.81 tonnes during the same period last year. The bulk of the inventory consisted of imports, at 31,754.40 tonnes, according to the latest data from the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS), as reported by the BusinessMirror.

Egg and chicken and turkey meat productions in Turkey increased in April year-on-year, according to the country's statistical agency.

The Philippines' growing reliance on imported meat is reflected in the 23.86% import growth recorded in the first two months.

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).

South Korea has agreed to allow trade restrictions only at the state level instead of country level in the event of a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) detection in the US.

Southeast Asia has become a major market for US agricultural products, particularly soybeans, and wheat. Last year, the 11-nation region (which includes Timor-Leste) ranked as the third-largest regional market, behind East Asia and North America, according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).

Despite tapping the Chinese market after the effective closure of the Russian market, Brazil exported less pork in the first six months than it did during the same period last year.

UK red meat exports increased 7% to more than 183,000 tonnes during the period January to May, compared with the same period last year. They were valued at over £487 million (US$640.67 million).

Cargill and Seoul-based AG Meat, a specialty import meat distributor are partnering to offer premium US beef brand, Excel® in a new concept meat store called 'It's Meat.'

China has lifted its longstanding ban on UK beef imports, in a landmark move for British producers estimated to be worth £250 million in the first five years alone.

US beef exports set a new monthly value record in March and pork export value reached the second-highest level on record.

The US dairy industry is already reeling from losses amounting to US$1.8 billion over the last few weeks due to the retaliatory tariffs by major trading partners, Tom Vilsack, CEO of the US Dairy Export Council, said during an interview with MSNBC.

A research associate from Utrecht University in The Netherlands has highlighted a "promising approach" to improve an animal's innate immune system and thus raise the threshold above which infections occur, as a way of reducing reliance on antibiotics.

EU cow's milk collection increased 1.2% or by 167,000 tonnes in April compared with the same month in 2017. The increase was most notable in Germany, Italy and Poland, according to the "Milk Market Situation" report for June 2018, put out by the European Commission's Milk Market Observatory.

The first half of this year is the best ever for Norwegian seafood exports, reaching record levels thanks to the strong growth in demand in EU markets, according to the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC).

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The additional 10% tariff that the US announced it planned to impose on $200 billion worth of imported goods from China includes all of the country's Chinese seafood imports, according to the Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA).

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.

China's pork producer, WH Group, has disclosed a 1% increase in net profit for the first half of 2017 - a disappointing result dashing analysts' expectations, the South China Morning Post reported.