Published: Jul 19, 2012

Danone’s Oikos Greek yogurt has been named Canada’s ‘Best New Dairy Product’, just months after its launch in the country.

Published: Jul 19, 2012

Food scientists at Cornell University, US, have identified predominant spore-forming bacteria in milk and their unique enzyme activity, a finding that could help to extend the shelf-life of dairy products and improve their quality.

Published: Jul 19, 2012

Scorching drought conditions throughout the U.S. prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department Wednesday to declare 39 new counties in eight states as disaster areas, making farmers and livestock producers there eligible for emergency low-interest government l

Published: Jul 19, 2012

While the corn and soybean crops have taken the worst beating from this year's drought so far, the nation's livestock farmers aren't faring a whole lot better.

Published: Jul 18, 2012 By: Kacey Culliney

Price spikes in the US grains market fuelled by a lengthy drought will be felt by bakery and snack manufacturers around September, according to an industry analyst.

Published: Jul 18, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Dairy Crest is in line to meet is full year expectations, after increased sales and a fall in price paid for fuel and plastic helped drive the firm’s return to a “satisfactory level of profitability.”

Published: Jul 18, 2012

Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Kochi, has now developed ready-to- serve and ready-to-cook fish products.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

Fish are cheap in Japan and getting cheaper. Prices at the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market in Tsukiji, Chuo Ward, peaked in the first half of the 1990s at 996 yen ($12.5) per kilogram, but have since lost 20% of their value. Fish traded at 802

Published: Jul 18, 2012

The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), a regional fisheries organisation of 17 member states spanning the Caribbean region, concluded its eighth scientific meeting in Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

More than 2,500 families in the southernmost province of Ca Mau are benefiting from a new rice-shrimp farming model, according to the province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

The Department of Agriculture is allotting an initial P67 million to bankroll several agricultural and fishery infrastructure projects in Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte, to transform it into a sufficient producer of rice, white corn, other staple crops

Published: Jul 18, 2012

Deputy commissioner Baldev Singh has told farmers that fish farming is a viable option for those living in water logged areas.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

South Korea has decided to scrap its Plan to resume whaling for scientific research, a government official said Tuesday, after the the decision sparked criticism.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

On Friday 13 July the masters and owner of the Anglo Dutch vessel Angsar (E104) were sentenced by North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court for failing to maintain an accurate logbook.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, has announced that the Government of Canada will make significant investments to repair, construct and maintain small craft harbours across Canada.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

So far 2,100 exhibitors from 50 countries have signed up for EuroTier 2012. With 30 per cent more exhibition space, the show will be held in Hanover from 13 to 16 November 2012.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

NOAA has announced that it will adjust the 2012 Georges Bank yellowtail flounder quotas for both commercial scallop and groundfish fisheries to preserve fishing opportunities for both industries.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

H.J. Baker & Bros., Inc. and Vimifos S.A. de C.V., a Mexico-based animal nutrition company, have reached an agreement to sell H.J. Baker PRO-PLUS and PRO-PAK products to the poultry feed industry in Mexico.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

Corn crop conditions were deteriorating sharply in a number of key growing states, including Illinois, Indiana and Ohio in the Central states, the US Department of Agriculture said in its Crop Progress report released July 16.

Published: Jul 18, 2012

Turkey eggs in incubators on July 1 increased 5 percent from 2011 totals, according to data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the US Department of Agriculture.