Decreasing growth rates and market saturation in the developed world are issues that the poultry industry will need to deal with in the near future. Focusing on the developing world seems to be the way ahead, but animal health, higher maize prices...

The issue of animal welfare in commercial egg production systems is one which can be approached from many angles: the animal, the producer, the consumer and so on. Dr Helenice Mazzuco, an EMBRAPA researcher in Brazil, gives her perspective on this...

In 2006, Brazilian exporters managed to increase the number of countries buying Brazilian chicken from little more than 100 to the current 150. Nevertheless, 2006 was an extremely difficult year for Brazil’s poultry industry. However, prospects fo...

With numbers that surpass the production figures of many countries, Brazil’s cooperative Aurora has grown to become the country’s seventh largest company in the poultry sector and the third largest co-op overall.

A multi-disciplinary research group at the University of Campinas has presented a new plan to the Brazilian government to help monitor Al-infected species entering the country. Their main preoccupation is the southern migratory route.

Brazil is taking on a leading position in many sectors of agricultural production. Within the poultry industry, the country has become a leader in chicken meat exports. Will it soon become a leader within turkey exports?

Chicken meat production in Mexico is expected to increase again in 2007. chicken production may surpass both beef and pork as Mexico’s rapidly growing poultry industry becomes concentrated, integrated and modern.

Brazil surprised everyone, including itself, by exporting virtually 100,000 tonnes more chicken in the first quarter of this year as in the same period of 2004, an increase of 18.3%. At the end of 2004, a year in which 26% more chicken, a massiv...

The Brazilian chicken business continues on an upward spiral. Brazilian poultry products flood markets in Asia and Europe. Neighbour Argentina is suffering from an economic crisis, affecting the poultry industry as well. It is on a downturn, but...