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EU Internal Market and Industry Commissioner Elizabeth Bienkowska has committed the European Commission to develop more animal welfare indicators and promote funding to higher welfare chicken farming subsidies through the Common Agricultural Policy.
Global poultry breeding company Aviagen has joined forces with Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) to tackle the growing demand for chicken.
Up to £7m of UK funding has been allocated as part of a multilateral programme to tackle poultry and swine disease in Asia.
Scientists claim to have successfully carried out the first molecular characterisation of avian metapneumovirus (aMPV) in Turkish broiler flocks.
Use of vaccine technology to control H7N9 avian influenza was generally successful in poultry but the research found new viruses in ducks, according to results published in Cell Host and Microbe.
Moves to supply Cobb genetics to far Eastern markets are in the pipeline following a decision by the New Zealand government to grant the company an Avian Transitional Facility certificate.
Ukrainian-based international agro-industrial group MHP has confirmed it is seeking to acquire Perutnina Ptuj, a well-established and vertically integrated poultry company based in Slovenia.
Escalating trade war issues between the world’s 2 largest superpowers has prompted China to shun US soybeans.
Egg industry leaders have adopted a formal position on antimicrobial resistance at their recent Global Leadership Conference in Kyoto, Japan.
2 poultry companies have been shortlisted to pitch at next month’s World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit.
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