Tyson Foods, which traditionally produces, distributes, and markets chicken, beef and pork products, has recently introduced the US company's first plant-based and 'blended' products, according to a June 13 press release.

CP Company Vietnam has signed an agreement on building a production chain of poultry meat for export with the Department of Animal Health, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the south province of Binh Phuoc and the Department of Animal Health in the sixth section, the Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper reported.

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.

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).

African swine fever's impact on China - a major pork producer which accounts for around half of the meat's global output - had dented worldwide supplies and drove up prices, CNN reported.

China could see pork prices reaching a new record by the next winter as the country continues to grapple with the implications of African swine fever (ASF) outbreak, Nikkei Asian Review reported.

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.

Brazil has temporarily suspended beef exports to China after an atypical case of mad cow disease was reported in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, the country agriculture ministry announced on June 3.

Japan has lifted its last restriction on beef imports from the United States, almost 16 years after the East Asian country banned US beef and beef products following the detection of a BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease)-positive animal in the US.

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.

Cargill is launching BeefUp Sustainability, an initiative committed to achieving a 30% greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity reduction across its North American beef supply chain by 2030.

A support scheme that will provide EUR100 million (US$112.1 million) in funds to Ireland's beef farmers will be launched "in the very near future," said the country's Minister of Agriculture, Michael Creed.

Two new abstracts to be presented by AB Vista at the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) meeting will reveal unique insights into the effect of in-feed enzymes on a range of dairy herd performance markers, including milk yield, milk fat, dry matter intake and protein responses.

The US refused a total of just 55 seafood entry lines in June which, by a significant margin, is the lowest monthly total of seafood entry line refusals for any month since October 2001, when the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started reporting such data on its website.

Norway's exports of salmon (the most important species for Norwegian seafood exports) in May increased 14% to 91,000 tonnes, valued at NOK6.1 billion (US$711.81 million), up 1% or NOK52 million compared with May last year.

The seafood industry has much catching up to do in drawing American kids to eat fish and shellfish other than other sources of protein.

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.