Broilers are better protected against a non-infectious lung challenge when the feed, water and housing was optimum during the early life of the animals. This was concluded by researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
The US’s National Chicken Council (NCC) has announced it support of proposed actions to adjust the biofuels targets for 2014, 2015, and 2016 in response to the EPA’s proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volume targets.
UK’s largest retailer says move is bid to combat childhood obesity, and will replace drinks with own-brand or no-added-sugar products
An avian influenza outbreak, subtype H7N7, has been reported at a commercial layer farm near the city of Herzlake in Lower Saxony, located in the north-western part of Germany, local agriculture officials have confirmed.
After having successfully passed a test in practice, the DLG Test Center Technology and Farm Inputs (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – German Agricultural Society) recently awarded the PAL-VITAL feeding bowl for broilers of the German manufacturer PAL Bullermann with the test label “DLG FokusTest”.
Increasing consumer demand for organic and lean protein options has driven the expansion of Foster Farm’s turkey line.
Food and drink industry veteran Jim Moseley will succeed David Gregory as chairman of Red Tractor operator AFS
Growers have increased acreage for 2015 season following ‘rapidly growing’ European demand
While US congress considers repealing a law requiring country-of-origin labels on packages of beef, pork and poultry, marketing researchers at the University of Arkansas have found that such labels influence consumer perceptions about food safety and quality.
A waste heat recovery system to make heating of poultry barns more even, efficient and cost effective by driving down the amount of propane required to heat the barns in the winter, has been developed in the US.
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