December 27, Omsk Experimental Plant FSUE (member of Omsky Biocluster) held a final meeting at which the results of the work of all services and departments of the plant for 2018 were reviewed, tasks for 2019 were defined.
"Rusagro Group reports confirming on January 11, 2019 of a case of infection by the FMDV virus of animals kept at one of the company's pig farms in the Primorsky Territory," Rusagro reports. Due to the outbreak of the disease, 481 animals will be destroyed and quarantine activities carried out.
Siberian Agrarian Group livestock holding based in Tomsk will build a plant for processing organic waste into bio-oil, SoyaNews reports. 
In November 2018, Germany reported a 4% reduction in the number of pigs compared with a year earlier, according to data from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). 
Miratorg Agribusiness Holding, one of the leading meat producers in the Russian Federation, became the owner of two companies of RAV Agro Holding in Oryol region (RAV Agro-Orel and LB Orel). 
In December, the Laboratory of quality and safety of products of animal and vegetable origin, feed and environmental objects of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (member of Omsky Biocluster) received 364 samples, in which 2436 tests were conducted. As a result, experts identified 12 samples with violations of regulatory documentation. 
For the first time in 18 months, Chinese authorities approved the import of genetically modified crops from the United States. Observers consider this fact to be another sign of the warming of Sino-US relations against the background of the trade negotiations taking place in Beijing.
The American poultry market is struggling with oversupply amid record-high production of broilers and red meat, which has already led to low domestic prices and high stocks in cold storage warehouses, said Nan-Dirk Mulder, senior analyst at Rabobank.