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.

Argentina's poultry industry in the first half registered decreases in slaughterings, exports and per capita consumption.

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).

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has welcomed an announcement that the US will soon begin trade talks with Japan, the US pork industry's number one value market, which imported more than US$1.6 billion of US pork in 2017.

Following the trend recorded in June, EU exports of fresh and frozen pork in July rose 3% to 164,000 tonnes compared with a year earlier, according to data from Eurostat, AHDB Pork reports.

Despite measures to contain African swine fever, it is unlikely that China has controlled the spread of the disease, based on the broad dispersion of cases reported so far, according to a report by the agricultural lender Rabobank.

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.

Meat and fish consumption in Asia is projected to grow 33% by 2030 and 78% by 2050, according to a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario presented by Asia Research & Engagement (ARE) in its report entitled "Charting Asia's Protein Journey".

After more than a year of tensions arising from NAFTA renegotiations, the US and Canada finally agreed to an updated trade agreement - now known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement - which would give US dairy farmers a 3.6% access to the Canadian dairy market.

The NAFTA agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico is saved for now - and an updated provision would see US dairy farmers gaining a foothold in the Canadian market.

Entering its 32nd edition this year, SPACE continues to cement its reputation as a renowned livestock show held in Rennes, France.

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The export price of fresh or chilled farmed salmon during the period Aug. 6 - 12 reached NOK57.33 per kilogramme, down 0.2% from the previous week's NOK57.44 and down 3.7% from the same week period last year, according to the latest figures released by Statistics Norway.

The US refused in July 157 seafood entry lines, of which 2 were of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics and another 12 for salmonella contamination.

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.