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Cal-Maine Foods announces new egg joint venture

02 May 2012 - Cal-Maine Foods has announced a new joint venture between Eggland’s Best, a New Jersey-based egg cooperative, and Land O’ Lakes, a national farmer-owned cooperative based in Minnesota, to produce and sell branded specialty eggs. Read more >>

Fiji vendors remanded to start egg refrigeration

02 May 2012 - Fiji’s Ministry of Health has issued a notice to market place vendors that eggs sold on the market must be refrigerated, the Fiji Times reports. Read more >>

Indonesian boy dies from bird flu

02 May 2012 - A two-year old Indonesian boy has died from bird flu in a state hospital in Riau, the Health Ministry has confirmed. Read more >>

International Poultry Expo updates website

02 May 2012 - The International Poultry Expo has a new website, which went live this week. The redesigned website focuses on relevant attendee and exhibitor information and features a video on the new International Production & Process Expo (IPPE), the co-location of IPE, IFE, and AMI’s IME in 2013. Read more >>

Russia and Thailand meet to promote poultry cooperation

02 May 2012 - The first meeting of the Subcommission on Agricultural Cooperation under the Thai-Russian Joint Commission for Bilateral cooperation was held recently with the Ministers of Agriculture for both countries outlining their strategies. Read more >>

Brasil Foods reports profits below estimates

01 May 2012 - For the first quarter of 2012, Brasil Foods has reported a strong decrease in net income of 60%. The Brazilian poultry and pork processor attributes this to lower exports to Asian markets, as well as to increased feed costs. Read more >>

Russia eyes poultry exports as production grows

01 May 2012 - Russia's poultry production volume in the first half of this year will increase to 816,800 tonnes from 717,100 tonnes in the first half of 2011, announced Galina Bobyleva, the head of the Russian union of poultry farmers (Rosptitsesoyuz), at a recent round table meeting. Read more >>

California bans duck and goose liver delicacy

01 May 2012 - Foie gras, the French delicacy consisting of the enlarged liver of a duck or goose, is to be banned in California as of July 1, leaving Californian chefs aghast. Read more >>

Company results: Merial posts lower sales in Q1 of 2012

01 May 2012 - French animal health company Merial, headquartered in Lyon, France, recorded sales of €578 million, down 5.4%, impacted by a tough comparable first quarter 2011. Read more >>

Tyson Foods begins Missouri poultry plant expansion

01 May 2012 - Tyson Foods has begun work on a multi-million dollar improvement and expansion project at its poultry complex in Sedalia, Missouri. Read more >>

Construction begins on new Kemin research facility

30 Apr 2012 - Kemin Industries has begun construction on its new research and development facility in Des Moines, Iowa. The state-of-the-art facility will provide 1,215 linear feet of laboratory bench space for approximately 60 scientists. Read more >>

UK: FSA implements molecular-based campylobacter surveillance

30 Apr 2012 - The Food Standards Agency is inviting tenders to carry out enhanced molecular-based surveillance and source attribution of campylobacter infections in the UK. Read more >>

Aviagen welcomes Cherkizovo Group to Scotland

30 Apr 2012 - Aviagen and Cherkizovo Group, Russia’s leading poultry meat producer and one of Aviagen’s key Russian customers, have completed a series of meetings at Aviagen’s European headquarters in Edinburgh in a move designed to share technical information and improve understanding of modern farming methods. Read more >>

Cherkizovo: New bird houses at the poultry breeding facility

30 Apr 2012 - Cherkizovo Group, Russia's leading integrated and diversified meat producer has opened new bird houses at the poultry breeding facility in its Penza cluster. Read more >>

Hong Kong suspends poultry imports from Liaoning province

27 Apr 2012 - Hong Kong has suspended imports of poultry products from Liaoning province on the mainland, Reuters has reported. Read more >>

Newcastle Disease kills 44m broilers in Pakistan

27 Apr 2012 - Newcastle Disease is estimated to have killed over 44 million broilers in the last five months, according to speakers at a meeting held at the University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences (UVAS) in Lahore, Pakistan. Read more >>

Philippines lifts Australian poultry import ban

27 Apr 2012 - The Philippines Department of Agriculture has lifted a ban imposed on poultry meat, day old chicks, eggs and semen from Australia. Read more >>

Orffa introduces new copper source in Europe

27 Apr 2012 - IntelliBond C (Tribasic copper chloride – TBCC) is a completely new form of copper, which is now available for animal nutrition in Europe. This new specific crystalline copper source received EU approval as a nutritional additive for all animal species (functional group: compounds of trace elements). Read more >>

Burger King aims for cage-free eggs by 2017

27 Apr 2012 - After announcements of McDonald's and Wendy's to phase out sow stalls and cage in pork and egg production, Burger King announced this week that all its eggs and pork will come from cage-free chickens and pigs by 2017. Read more >>

Soymeal for poultry feed the new gold

26 Apr 2012 - With a South American drought dampening the harvest expectations, soybeans and soymeal, and consequently chicken feed, have become the target of speculation on par to that of crude oil or gold, the Wall Street Journal reports. Read more >>
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