In August, the Expert Veterinary Laboratory of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member) received 916 samples, with which 2,338 tests were carried out. As a result, specialists identified 174 cases of non-compliance with the requirements of regulatory documents. 
Ethanol producers in the European Union (EU) countries produced 3.83 million tonnes of DDGS in 2019, the Ethanol Producers Association estimates. This is more than in previous years, and almost all of the product was used in the production of animal feed. 
At the end of eight months of 2020, exports of agricultural products increased by 13% compared to the same period last year. Supplies of almost all foodstuffs increased, with the exception of fish and seafood. The largest increase in exports was in meat and dairy products (+ 63%). 
In August, the Laboratory of Quarantine Phytosanitary Examinations and Surveys of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member) analyzed 1,382 samples, of which 153 samples were under the state assignment. 
The Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan Saparkhan Omarov announced the forecast for the harvest. According to the Minister, Kazakhstan will harvest about 18 million tons of grain. Now, Kazakh farmers have threshed 11.5 million tons of grain, which is 63% of the harvested area, last year this figure was 34%. 
Now the farmers of the Omsk region have threshed 1.9 million tons of grain with an average yield of 14.7 centners / ha (in 2019 - 739,900 tons with a yield of 16.9 centners / ha). 
Pügenwalder Mühle (a German food manufacturer) entered the vegetarian meat substitute market in a timely manner, as a result of which the company's project is already paying off. Although the experience of selling such alternative products was the first became the first for the company. Sausage maker Rügenwalder Mühle says it now sells more vegetarian and vegan meat alternatives than classic cold cuts or tea sausages, writes Alfons Deter in his article at www.topagrar.com. 
According to Vladimir Plotnikov, President of the Association of Peasant Farms and Agricultural Cooperatives of Russia (AKKOR), over the past ten years, the sown area on farms has been increasing by almost 1 million hectares annually. For grain, the share of farmers is 29.5%, sunflower 35%.