The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts another year of growth in world beef and veal production, by about 2%, to almost 62 million tonnes in 2017. 
Turkey officially resumed imports of russian grain, shipping and contracting began on Monday. Such a statement was made by Turkish Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci. 
Hendrix Genetics (Netherlands) intends to open in Russia a complex for the production of an hatching turkey egg with an annual capacity of about 6.5 million eggs and 60-70 thousand head of young animals. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to its own sources. 
May 30-31, 2017 SFERA Publishing House holds the III International Conference "WORLD SOY – FEEDS" in St. Petersburg (Hotel forRestMix Club, St. Petersburg, Repino, Lugovaya, 10A). 
The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation has given its consent to the introduction of the system of food cards. 
May 2, 2017 Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia Evgeny Nepoklonov held a conference call with the regions of the Volga and Ural Federal Districts to discuss the pace of implementation of the system of electronic veterinary certification, the website of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation said. 
McDonald's will use in its russian fast food restaurants products only of local production. This was told to journalists by President of McDonald's in Russia Khamzat Khasbulatov. He noted that these are long-standing plans that will make it possible not to depend on currency fluctuations. 
The quarantine pest was discovered by specialists of the Laboratory of Quarantine Phytosanitary Examinations and Surveys of Omsk Reference Center of Rosselkhoznadzor in a party of Dutch flowers brought to Omsk region.