Egg industry leaders have announced that the industry is to work in partnership with the United Nations to fulfil its Sustainable Development Goals. The World Egg Organisation has identified six key objectives where it is making a significant impact through [...]
Cage free large eggs are being recalled by a US-based company due to a potential contamination of Salmonella. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Gravel Ridge Farms was recalling the eggs because a number of people had reported [...]
More outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) keep being reported from China. The total count of outbreaks is now at 11 in 6 different provinces. China has locked down over the ASF threat with prices for pork rising steeply. The [...]
The rapid evolution and development of that part of the pig meat sector, and the sheer size of China’s pig and pork sector, means that regular updates and reviews are necessary. In this second article in a series, here [...]
Animal welfare organisations received a boost to their “End the Cage Age” campaign after the European Commission agreed to formally register its initiative. The decision by the EC’s College of Commissioners concerns only the legal admissibility of the proposal and [...]
“The approval of using insect protein for poultry feed can be expected in the not so distant future.” This is according to Tarique Arsiwalla, chief commercial officer at insect producer Protix in the Netherlands and board member of the International Platform of Insects for [...]
When the rain stopped in Australia, 16-year-old Zara King began to take pictures of the destruction of her family livestock farm. The worst drought in living memory is sweeping parts of eastern Australia, leaving farmers struggling to cope and asking [...]
The way we offer feed is most likely just as important as the composition of the feed. This is according to the Dutch feed company Coppens that carried out research in cooperation with Cargill and Wageningen University and Research Centre [...]
Weighing chickens and monitoring their development can be a time-consuming business and a single worker is only likely to complete a small sample by hand each week. And while remotely monitored scales can help, they suffer from blind spots [...]
At the beginning of this year, the Belgian-Dutch hatchery group BHV launched its concept to hatch chicks inside the poultry house: NestBorn. Dutch broiler farmer Robèr van Zutven has been involved with this concept from the beginning and is [...]
