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Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) has suspended COVID-19 testing for meat plant workers as demand for screening increases and capacity is stretched.

USDA data shows Chinese buyers booking 664,000 tonnes of soybeans, the largest daily total since 22 July, for deliver in the 2020/21 marketing year.

As JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, reported second-quarter net profits that were twice as high as analysts expected, Reuters sheds a light how the company contended with COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths among its plant workers in Brazil.…

The Trump administration says it will stop requiring US plants that produce egg products to have full-time government inspectors.

After receiving approval from the Merced Department of Public Health, Faster Farms has reopened its poultry processing plant in Livingston, California.

Canada's Agriculture Minister has earmarked $77.5 million for the Emergency Processing Fund, helping meat processing facilities provide additional protections for workers.

After postponing the popular GAME 2020 conference due to COVID-19, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWTC) is pleased to bring delegates a virtual conference on Friday 2 October via Zoom.

After the phenomenal success since its launch just two years ago, the NFU is opening its annual Farmvention competition to bring the world of food and farming into the classroom. This year the competition is focusing on the greatest global challenge of all – climate change.…

Exhibitors and visitors will be meeting both physically - at the fairground in Chengdu - and virtually on the online platform “EuroTier China LIVE”; German Pavilion organized by the German Ministry of Agriculture reflect…

The USDA is seeking to make the recent increase speed in poultry lines permanent, alarming food and worker safety advocates.

BRF SA, Brazil’s largest chicken processor and exporter, will provide PFF2 respirators to all its employees to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Skyrocketing corn prices in China are raising concerns over food security as food inflation reaches its highest level in a decade.

The British Poultry Council warns that forcing meat plants to close due to COVID-19 could put the UK's food supply in jeopardy.

A letter signed by 2,130 farmers and ranchers was delivered to Congress to stress the impacts of the climate crisis on the agriculture sector and highlight the ways farmers can lead on climate solutions.

Due to a spike in sales of backyard poultry during the coronavirus pandemic, Barastoc has launched a new, free programme that allows poultry keepers to learn the essentials of chicken health and welfare.

Iowa, the biggest corn producer in the United States, is facing its most widespread drought since September 2013, compounding problems for farmers after devastating wind storm earlier in August.

Grieving relatives buried the body of Nicaraguan agricultural labourer who died of heat stroke in Spain earlier in August.

A bylaw against keeping livestock in residential areas has backyard poultry keepers in Melancthon township wondering if they can keep their birds.

Hurricane Laura mostly missed the US grains sector after making landfall, but some animals may be at risk.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust urge policymakers to put working conservationists at the heart of the UK's conservation and greening policy.