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Six federal agencies in the US have teamed-up on behalf of the White House Rural Council and announced 26 communities to participate in the Local Foods, Local Places federal initiative...
Mars Saudi Arabia has officially launched a new manufacturing facility at King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in Rabigh, 130km north of Jeddah.
Cargill has signed an agreement with Wichita-based consultancy Kennedy and Coe for a joint venture to develop a verified beef supply chain sustainability assessment programme for Cargill feed yards.
Thousands of turkeys and chickens have died from H5 subtype avian influenza at two poultry farms in south-western British Columbia, Canada, with both locations currently under quarantine.
India-based Sarhad Dairy is to invest around Rs70cr ($12.96m) to expand its storage and packaging capacity.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said that a funding crisis has forced it to suspend a programme that provided food vouchers to 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring...
Del Monte Pacific has approved a joint venture with Spanish fruit company Nice Fruit and investment firm Ferville to build a modern cold storage facility in the Philippines.
Breakfast cereal maker Kellogg's has increased its bid for Egyptian cake and biscuit maker Bisco Misr to EGP82.2 ($11.50) per share, in an increasingly intensifying bidding war with Dubai-based competitor...
Arla Foods UK is planning to cut around 100 jobs as part of its restructuring process in the British dairy sector.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has released results from its year-long survey of campylobacter in fresh chickens, which revealed that almost 70% chickens tested positive for the bacterial presence.
