Concerns about trade issues but outlook positive

Avec’s Annual General Assembly was permeated by the major concerns of the European poultry sector surrounding the trade agreement between the Mercosur countries and the European Union. Poultry producers also looked to the future of the European industry. On the whole, the outlook for poultry seems positive. The influx of poultrymeat from South America under the new Mercosur trade agreement will cost European poultry producers about six million birds a week that they can no longer produce for