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).

Belgium urged the Philippines to lift the blanket import ban it has imposed on pork products from the European country last year following an outbreak of the African swine fever.

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.

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.

Livestock nutrition specialist Dr Cathy Bandyk has joined AB Vista as ruminant technical manager for NAFTA and will support customers across North America, Mexico and Brazil.

Following an undercover expose of the alleged slaughtering of sick cows at a local abattoir, Poland could propose a new law this month to strengthen controls at Polish slaughterhouses, Politico reported.

Following a record-breaking 251 startups from 53 countries which have applied to be part of Alltech's Pearse Lyons Accelerator, the programme's 2019 class has been selected to work with Alltech and Dogpatch Labs to accelerate their business development.

China's shrimp imports from Vietnam has substantially decreased, based on data bared recently by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

From 26 in January, US refusal of entry lines of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics went down to zero in February, according to a news release by the Southern Shrimp Alliance, an organisation of shrimp fishermen and processors in the eight warmwater shrimp-producing states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.

While Norway's seafood exports declined 4% (or by 7,700 tonnes) to 200,600 tonnes in January, value increased 13% (or by NOK992 million) to NOK8.6 billion (US$997.65 million), compared with the same month last year.

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.