Year: 2017

Marine Harvest Enters Share Purchase Agreement To Acquire Northern Harvest

December 27, 2017 Marine Harvest

Marine Harvest is pleased to announce that we have entered into a Share Purchase Agreement to purchase Northern Harvest ("the Company"), a leading East Coast Canadian salmon farmer. The Company is fully integrated with its own broodstock, smolt/hatchery, farming sites and processing operations. The potential acquisition supports Marine Harvest's long term strategy of being a world leading and integrated producer of seafood proteins. …

Impacts Of The 2014-2015 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreak On The US Poultry Sector

December 27, 2017 Sean Ramos, Matthew Maclachlan, And Alex Melton, USDA ERS

Between December 2014 and June 2015, more than 50 million chickens and turkeys in the United States died of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) or were destroyed to stop the spread of the disease. These birds accounted for about 12 percent of the U.S. table-egg laying population and 8 percent of the estimated inventory of turkeys grown for meat. …

Swift Beef Company Recalls Beef Stew Products

December 27, 2017 USDA FSIS

Swift Beef Co., doing business as JBS USA Food Company, a Cactus, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 4,702 pounds of beef stew product that may be contaminated with foreign matter , specifically plastic and metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. …

Carando & Big Y Supermarkets Partnered To Serve National Guard Holiday Feast

December 27, 2017 Smithfield Foods

Carando®, the artisans of Classic Italian Meats, and Big Y Supermarkets partnered to host a special luncheon to show gratitude for the brave men and women of the 104th Fighter Wing and Army Aviation Support Facility #2 at Barnes Air National Guard Base. …

Orchid Farmer Aims To Put Focus On Taiwan At Expo

December 27, 2017 Lee Chung-hsien and Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times

Flower farmer Lin Chiang-kai, the owner of a major moth orchid greenhouse, said he aspires to raise the international profile of Taiwanese floriculture at next year’s Taichung World Flora Exposition. …