Plaintiffs in the antitrust class action lawsuit, Brown et al v. JBS USA Food Company et al, petitioned the court to dismiss their case against Triumph Foods.
China’s July soybean imports jumped by almost one-quarter from a year ago. Chinese hog farmers delayed the slaughter of pigs due to low pork prices, which in turn increased demand for animal feed.
Vietnam will export two million vaccine doses against African swine fever to the Philippines by October, one week after it approved domestic use of the world’s first commercial vaccines against the disease.
NPPC supports the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act, but Clemens Food Group is not supportive, and Hormel, Smithfield and Tyson have said they intend to comply with California’s Prop 12 law.
An outbreak of the African swine fever has forced pig breeders in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia to cull thousands of pigs since June and is putting pressure on governments to compensate farmers for their losses.
Vietnam has approved the domestic commercial use of two home-grown vaccines against African swine fever (ASF), the government said on Monday, making them the world’s first commercial vaccines against the deadly disease.
China’s second-quarter pork output rose 4.6% from a year earlier to 14.4 million metric tons, the highest in at least a decade for the period, as farmers raised more pigs on hopes of better demand.
Vaccines against ASF being tested in Vietnam are close to approval, global and U.S. veterinary officials said, in what would be a major breakthrough to tackle the deadly disease regularly ravaging pig farms worldwide.
South Korea is resuming imports of German pork after suspending them for more than two years following the discovery of African swine fever (ASF) in Germany, the German agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
