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Charoen Pokphand increases convenience store numbers

30 Mar 2012 - Thailand’s largest agribusiness conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) will increase the number of its CP Fresh Marts to 2,000 by 2015, tripling last year's level. Read more >>

Dosatron launches new version of Dia4Re

30 Mar 2012 - Water powered dosing company Dosatron has upgraded its Dia4Re dosage systems to better be able to withstand water loaded with iron or other minerals. Read more >>

Bounty Fresh appointed as Indian River Grandparent customer

30 Mar 2012 - Bounty Fresh, the second largest poultry producer in the Philippines and winner of several prestigious national awards in the poultry industry, has signed an agreement to be an Indian River Grandparent customer in February, 2012. Read more >>

German poultry production increases in 2011

29 Mar 2012 - German poultry production rose 2.5% to 1.66 million metric tones in 2011, the country’s Food & Agriculture Ministry has reported. Read more >>

ForFarmers No. 1 in Europe with BOCM Pauls takeover

29 Mar 2012 - ForFarmers is taking over UK-based food group BOCM Pauls for €85 million and becomes the largest feed producer in Europe. Yesterday, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, the contract between the two parties was signed. Read more >>

Five large poultry complexes planned in Kazakhstan

29 Mar 2012 - Israeli company, MAD Corporation, plans to build five large poultry farms worth 16 billion tenge (US $ 108 mln) in North Kazakhstan, under a new innovation project. Read more >>

Schothorst offers poultry feed training

29 Mar 2012 - Schothorst Feed Research will set up a training course with eight different modules focused on formulating feed for dairy, swine and poultry. Read more >>

Pfizer invests in 331 veterinarian students

29 Mar 2012 - For the third consecutive year, Pfizer Animal Health and the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) have announced the recipients of this year’s student scholarship programme in the United States and the Caribbean. Read more >>

Vietnam treats human bird flu case

29 Mar 2012 - A 31-year-old man has become the 2nd patient to be successfully treated for bird flu (H5N1) so far this year in Vietnam. Read more >>

UK supermarket drops GM-free poultry policy

28 Mar 2012 - UK supermarket chain, Morrisons, has dropped its GM-free feed requirement for poultry meat and eggs, as it looks towards strengthening its focus on sustainability. Read more >>

Food and ag coalition concerned by proposed US-EU FTA

28 Mar 2012 - The National Chicken Council in the US, has joined a coalition of 40 food and agricultural groups in voicing concern over a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and the European Union (EU). Read more >>

Miratorg and Meyn-Ishida agree Russian poultry plant solution

28 Mar 2012 - Russian company Miratorg and Meyn-Ishida have agreed to the delivery of a complete 12,000 birds per hour Greenfield plant in the Bryansk region, Russia. Read more >>

IEC Venice conference draws to a close

28 Mar 2012 - Eggs, food processing, economics, the environment – it’s all connected; this was the message as the IEC conference in Venice drew to a close. Read more >>

Bhutan farms loosing birds to protected predators

28 Mar 2012 - A number of village poultry farms in the eastern district of Trashigang are being ravaged by wild cats and the yellow-throated marten leaving farmers with huge losses and unsure of how to deal with the menace. Read more >>

International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) logo introduced

28 Mar 2012 - US Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY), American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), and American Meat Institute (AMI) have introduced the new International Production & Processing (IPPE) logo. Read more >>

Second registration phase for WPC 2012 ending

27 Mar 2012 - The deadline of second registration phase for the WPC 2012 (24th World Poultry Congress) is March 31st. Read more >>

FDA told to act on antibiotic use on poultry farms

27 Mar 2012 - A judge has ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take action on its own rule that would stop poultry, pig and other livestock producers from mixing antibiotics into animal feed. Read more >>

20,000 birds die in Canadian poultry farm fire

27 Mar 2012 - About 20,000 birds have died in a fire at a poultry farm close to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Read more >>

Russia bans import of protein feed of animal origin

27 Mar 2012 - Russia has implemented a complete embargo on imports of protein feeds of animal origin from all EU countries, Rosselkhoznadzor has reported. Read more >>

Wendy’s raises animal welfare standards for chicken

27 Mar 2012 - Wendy’s Animal Welfare Council have announced two major improvements to its animal welfare standards to significantly improve the humane treatment of chickens and pigs. Read more >>
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