June 21-22, 2017, the annual interregional agro-industrial forum 'Siberian Field Day - 2017' was held in Pavlovsky district of Altai Territory. Omsk Experimental Plant FSUE (member of Omsky Biocluster) has traditionally taken an active part in the exhibition. 
According to the forecasts of the analysts of the Association of vegetable oil producers of Brazil (Abiove), in 2017/18 MY the volume of processing of soybeans in the country will reach a record 41 million tons, which will lead to the maximum for the entire time of observations of the volumes of soybean oil and meal production, reports The Soybean & Corn Advisor. 
Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia Sergey Levin said that Russia has almost completely solved the task of providing food and turns the vector from import substitution to export development. Following the results of 2016, the export of domestic agricultural products continued to grow and reached $ 17 billion (+ 4.3%), the press service of the Russian Agriculture Ministry reports. 
Vesely Melnik Trade House LLC (member of Omsky Biocluster) shipped the first 68 tons of flour to China to the Manchurian Sino-Russian duty-free zone. 
The Russian Association of Clusters and Technoparks called Omsk region the leader of the creating industrial clusters rating on a par with Moscow region, according to the website of the forum Technoprom-2017. 
An outbreak of pasteurellosis has been registered in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, Rosselkhoznadzor informs. 
High profitability and growing global demand create a strong incentive for pork processors in the United States. The expected increase in demand for sows creates favorable conditions for producers, while competition between meat processors can lead to increased production capacity, according to a new report from CoBank. 
June 20, 2017, Omsk SAU (member of Omsky Biocluster), in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Omsk region, held a meeting at which issues of the effectiveness of economic measures in agricultural production were considered.