The Hillshire Brands Co. has filed a Notification of Late Filing with the US Securities and Exchange commission to delay the filing of its 10-K annual report up to 15 days.
In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a coalition of consumer and public health groups urged Vilsack to immediately approve a proposal to label mechanically tenderized beef products, which the group claims are “higher risk”.
US meat company Central Valley Meat (CVM) has reopened its California meat facility after the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) accepted its action plan involving humane treatment of livestock.
One of Australia’s oldest but most respected dairy groups Bulla Dairy Foods has been on the recruiting march and has recently signed up two of Australia’s top dairy marketing people to help with its next stage of expansion through innovation.
Shane McEntee TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine today visited Meade Potato Company, Navan, Co. Meath in advance of National Potato Day which is taking place on Saturday 25th August.
Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, today announced that 92 new entrants to dairying have been allocated milk quota under the 2012 New Entrants to Dairying Scheme.
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, today welcomed the decision by the authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to remove the age restriction on beef exported from Ireland to the UAE.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine today released the results of testing carried out under the National Residue Control Plan (NCRP) for 2011.
The Plant & Food Research Institute in New Zealand has received more than NZ$5 million (US$4m) in the latest round of government-backed science funding to develop fish ranching.
Total commercial red meat production in the United States in July 2012 was 3,944.5 million lbs, down 2% from a month earlier but up 4% from July 2012, the U.S.D.A. said in its latest Livestock Slaughter report.
A new report by Ecotrust has found that watershed and fish habitat restoration in Oregon has created jobs and generated $977.5 million in economic activity between 2001 and 2010.
In the second quarter of 2012, Lerøy Seafood Group had a turnover of NOK 2,306 million, which is on the same level as the second quarter of 2011, when turnover was NOK 2,397 million.
Around 7000 homes in the Beara Peninsula have been targeted by Save Bantry Bay, a voluntary group campaigning to prevent the expansion of Marine Harvest’s fish farms in the Bay.
The National Health and Quality (SENASA) and denatured seized 5000 kg of shellfish, fish and seafood, for a control procedure, held last July 23 in the town of Rawson, Chubut Province.
Since late June, Oceana has constantly surveyed the ships anchoring in the Natural Park of Ses Salines d’Eivissa i Formentera, by means of ship monitoring systems and satellite images.
The National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries (CONAPESCA) said that throughout the year fish supply is guaranteed to meet the demand for fish and seafood as since 2011 national fish production has exceeded 1,600,000 tons.
