February 2023

US aquaculture’s first forays into gene-edited catfish have produced fish that appear to be more resistance to disease – but the tech could face a long road before achieving regulatory approval.

A high-tech dairy farm is among the first in Bosnia turning biogas from animal feces and silage into electricity, as it aims to become self-reliant at a time when high energy prices pose a risk to the subsidy-dependent agricultural sector.

Consumers and processors benefit from the advantages of air-chilled poultry. Air chilling freshly processed poultry carcasses continues to gain popularity in the United States. European processors have used air chilling as an option to cool fresh chicken carcasses for over 50 years, but in the United States air chilling began in the early 2000s.

In some countries, vaccination is the main and most used strategy to control avian influenza (AVI), also known as bird flu. Yet, vaccination programs against H9N2 AVI have been ineffective.

Could mycotoxins predispose chickens to fatal disease, even at low levels. Unfortunately, corn can be susceptible to different mycotoxins, including aflatoxins, a family of carcinogenic toxins produced by fungi that commonly grow on corn and other food crops.

The dairy industry is facing new challenges from increasing demand for sustainable milk production and new government laws and policies targeting emissions reduction.

The French dairy giant has become the world’s first food company to make a methane-specific climate pledge – but questions remain around how this ambition could be realized.

Dutch animal nutrition and fish feed player, Nutreco, and BiomEdit, a spinout from Elanco Animal Health, are teaming up on long-term strategic research work as well as engaging in a commercial partnership around microbiome technology.

Research in New Zealand determined the feasibility of using composting shelters to house cows, a practice becoming popular among smallholder farmers.

The 5% tariff on deboned, separated poultry continues. According to a recent USDA GAIN report, Philippines president Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. signed an executive order earlier this month to extend 5% tariffs for mechanically deboned or separated poultry imports through December 31, 2024.

China’s pork output in 2022 increased by 4.6% from 2021 to reach its highest since 2014, official data showed on Tuesday, confounding some expectations for a smaller rise, reported Reuters. Beef output increased by 3%, while poultry output rose 2.

China claims it’s cloned three cows that make up to 18 metric tons of milk per year. “Super cows” are hard to breed since they’re identified at the end of their lives, per state-affiliated media. The scientists say they plan to build a herd of 1,000 super cows in the next two to three years.

Palm kernel expeller (PKE) is safe to be used as feed material for dairy cattle, according to the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB). Its director-general Datuk Ahmad Parveez Ghulam Kadir said studies using different batches of PKE, also known as palm kernel cake (PKC), have consistently showed positive effects on the performance and health of the dairy cattle.

With Chinese New Year taking place earlier this year in the midst of the seasonal rainy weather, fishmongers are saying that supplies of popular fish and seafood are even tighter than in past years, driving prices higher than usual. The year-end period, which coincides with the Northeast Monsoon in the region, typically sees lower supplies of seafood because the bad weather prevents fishermen from going out to sea.

China approved imports of eight genetically modified organism (GMO) crops, permitting shipments of GM alfalfa for the first time after a decade-long wait, the agriculture ministry said.

The Philippine Association of Feed Millers, Inc. (PAFMI) said the government needs to modernize the corn industry in light of increasing demand for animal feed.

By selling the semen of his water buffalo, a farmer in Kalasin province in northeast Thailand is making one million baht (RM131,041) monthly. The buffalo Big Billion’s seed is used by breeders to artificially inseminate their female buffaloes in hopes of giving birth to a new generation that will grow up to sell for millions like their father.

Penang has sufficient pork supply despite 11 commercial pig farms in Seberang Prai reported cases of African Swine Fever (ASF).

A new study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has re-mapped the country’s coastal aquaculture area and found that it has decreased substantially from 2016 as more areas are reverting to natural wet….

A coalition of agriculture stakeholders on Wednesday urged the Senate to reject the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), saying the Philippines is unprepared for such a trade deal.

It is high time that the Senate gets its act together, resolves concerns, particularly on the mechanics of safeguarding the crisis-ridden agriculture sector, and acts decisively — posthaste — to ratify the Regional Comprehensive and Economic Pact. With each delay, and worse, failure to effect ratification means depriving the country of entry into what has been touted as the largest free trade agreement in the world today.