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The development of premium broiler markets is dynamic, with a growth outlook from 8% now to 15-20% in 2025 in the EU. During the 3rd edition of the Hubbard premium forum experts shared their thoughts on market demands and the quest for new concepts covering the growing gap between conventional and premium concepts.
Scotland is arguably established as one of the world’s best spots for avian research. Poultry World rounds up some recent developments and finds three reasons that make Scotland a pioneering place.
High levels of surveillance and vigilance must be maintained by the egg industry in the face of ongoing outbreaks.
Poultry production in the EU will rise by a further 2.5% this year thanks to good demand and high prices. And price levels will also favour import growth for the second half of the year by around 5%, according to the European Commission’s “Short-Term Outlook for EU Agricultural Markets in 2019 and 2020”.
‘Do we want to be responsible for cutting down rainforest for feed production?’ That was the rhetorical question on which part of the main theme of the European symposium on poultry nutrition was based upon. A clear move of poultry producers towards responsible European soy is observed, but this feed source has its limitations.
The first lesson in Marketing is to respect your competitor. All suppliers of disinfectants are trying their best to deliver a product that is at least meeting the customer’s requirements and if possible exceeding it, certainly in terms of killing microorganisms. It is useful though to underline in understandable terms the differences between disinfectants currently on the market, so that each customer can make his own decision.
In late June the European Commission and the Mercosur group of countries signed a provisional trade agreement that, if it is ratified, would be the largest Europe has ever signed and one of the largest in the world. But farmers have expressed concern about granting South American agricultural produce market access.
Poultry farmers in India will no longer be able to use Colistin – one of the last resort antibiotics used to treat humans.
During the recently held feeds and nutrition course by Schothorst Feed Research, many aspects of feed formulation were covered. The yearly recurring event is designed to quickly inform the participants about the main theoretical and practical aspects of everything involved in feed production.
All About Feed is publishing a special magazine on reducing antibiotic use in farm animals. This issue will be published in December 2019.
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