In May, the Laboratory of Quarantine Phytosanitary Tests of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member) analyzed 1435 samples, including 9 samples as a state assignment. 
As part of an agricultural session organized by the Russian Agricultural Bank (the Omsk branch of the Bank is the Omsky Biocluster member) in June, the director general of the National Union of Hog Breeders, Yuri Kovalev, focused on the risk of over-saturation of the domestic pork market. "From the moment Russia reached self-sufficiency in the pork market in 2018, the market has changed. Today we see the need to launch a moratorium on new projects in terms of commodity production… 
About 10,000 drone harvesters will appear in 35 regions of Russia in the next three years. This is provided for by an agreement between the Russian-German agricultural holding Econiva and Cognitive Pilot (a subsidiary of Sberbank and the Cognitive Technologies group), the Cognitive Technologies said in a statement. 
In May, 545 samples were received at the Expert Veterinary Laboratory of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member), with which 2282 tests were conducted. As a result, experts identified 49 cases of non-compliance with regulatory requirements. 
Through May 17, U.S. ground beef sales increased more than $1 billion compared to the same period last year. That’s just some of COVID-19’s impact on retail meat and poultry markets, says Anne-Marie Roerink, president of 210 Analytics. 
On May 27, at a meeting of the Academic Council of the Omsk State Agrarian University (Omsky Biocluster member), a report was received by the rector on the work of the university staff for 2019 according to the results of a routine self-examination. 
In January-April 2020, the production of pigs (for slaughter in live weight) amounted to 1.5 million tons, which is 11.3% or 150,000 tons more than in the same period last year. 
According to the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, as of May 18, 2020, the daily volume of milk sales in Russia amounted to 50,800 tons, which is 7.7% more than the same indicator in 2019 (+3,300 tons).