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Chris Martin of Wairarapa Eggs with his free-range flock of 24,000 birds. - Photos: Chris McCullough
21-07-2021 | Article

Farm report: Desperate times call for desperate measures

Demand for poultry products is slowly recovering, but high feed prices will lead to more expensive production and eventually to price inflation at retail level. Photo: Bert Jansen
20-07-2021 | News

Global poultry sector set to improve post-Covid

Researcher Joshua Cassar led the study at Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences in Pennsylvania, US. - Photo: Penn State
19-07-2021 | Article

Pulsed UV light to decontaminate eggs

Large Kazakhstan egg farmers sell eggs below production costs as seasonal supply is high with backyard farmers coming to market. - Photo: Boerderij
19-07-2021 | News

Kazakhstan egg companies complain about dwindling profitability

Last week, BRF (Brazil Foods) announced their commitment to reach Net Zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040, both in its operations and in its production chain. - Photo: Michel Zoeter
16-07-2021 | News

BRF commits to 0 greenhouses gas emissions by 2040

To form the best egg possible, the hen needs the proverbial building blocks necessary to do so. That means presenting them those blocks on a silver platter, via the feed. - Photo: Ton Kastermans
16-07-2021 | Article

Improving shell quality and egg quantity with the right minerals

Trucks and cold-chain transport vehicles were amongst the items handed over to 21 agriculture cooperatives in Cambodia as part of the country s poultry project aimed at scaling up the development of the local backyard chicken sector. Photo: Heifer Cambodia
15-07-2021 | News

Boost for backyard poultry sector in Cambodia

About S! of Australia's chicken farms are in New South Wales. Photo: Capri23auto
14-07-2021 | News

Australia: Caged hens could be phased out by 2036

UK upmarket retailer Marks and Spencer is to become the first supermarket to only sell slower-reared, higher welfare chicken across its full range of fresh poultry products. Photo: Koos Groenewold
13-07-2021 | News

Marks and Spencer to only stock slower growing broilers

Putnu Fabrika Kekava, the biggest Latvian poultry processor, plans to heavily invest in environmentally friendly technologies and build its own solar plant to cut carbon emissions. Photo: Bert Jansen
12-07-2021 | News

Kekava rolls out major green initiative

Poultry and humans share similar preferences to temperature, researchers have found. Photo: Bert Jansen
12-07-2021 | News

Examining poultry heat stress

Photo: Shutterstock
09-07-2021 | News

Reserve your space now in the Mycotoxin special!

Les Fermiers de Loue, won this year s best marketing award for their humorous and eye-catching street poster campaign. Photo: Les Fermiers de Loue
09-07-2021 | News

European poultry companies win top honours

The United States egg industry continues its march on expansion of cage-free, free-range and pasture egg layers to the detriment of cages. Photo: Bert Jansen
09-07-2021 | News

US pulse check on EU move to ban caged birds

Local poultry producers in Saudi Arabia are being encouraged to drastically increase production. Photo: By Capri23auto
09-07-2021 | News

Saudi Arabia’s changing poultry landscape