Innovative Egg Pasteurisation Technology Launched
DENMARK - Sanovo Technology has launched the next step in egg pasteurisation technology.

Lohmann Tierzucht Celebrates 50th Anniversaries
GERMANY - For Lohmann Tierzucht, 2009 is a year of celebration: the company has marked the 50th anniversaries for both its layer breeding business and for its veterinary laboratory.

International Egg and Poultry Review: US Trade with Caribbean
US - By the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). This is a weekly report looking at international developments concerning the poultry industry. This week's report focuses on the poultry situation in the Caribbean.

Sanovo Launches New Corporate Identity
DENMARK - Strong growth along with targeted acquisition and investment has enabled Sanovo to become leading specialists in the development, manufacture and marketing of egg handling and processing equipment. The group has a new corporate identity as Sanovo...

Hy-Line Technical Service School Largest to Date
US - Hy-Line International held its fifteenth bi-annual Technical Service School in June 2009, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Humphrey Feeds Expands its Poultry Feed Team
UK - Humphrey Feeds has demonstrated its commitment to UK Free Range and Organic producers by announcing that they are to expand their team of on-farm poultry feed specialists.

Poultry Products Prices Likely to Go Down Soon
QATAR - Eggs and chicken are expected to be much cheaper once a number of mega poultry projects which are being launched in the country go on stream over the next few years.

Egg Prices Expected to Go Up
TAMIL NADU, INDIA - The price of egg, which was increased by 15 paise yesterday, is expected to go up in the coming weeks.

Free-range Eggs on Public Sector Menu Urged
UK - Wearside MP Chris Mullin likes his eggs free-range – and he wants to see Sunderland's schools, council offices, hospitals and other public sector organisations forced to serve them up the same.

A'Saffa to Meet Qatar Poultry Needs
QATAR - A'Saffa Poultry based in Oman is to supply Qatar with 20 per cent of its poultry and egg demands.

First Newcastle Disease Outbreak in Honduras
HONDURAS - The veterinary authorities have sent an Immediate Notification to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about a new case of Newcastle disease in a layer flock.

Hassad's Project to Supply 20 Per Cent of Qatar's Needs
QATAR - Hassad Food has signed a deal to set up a new poultry project with Oman-based A'Saffa Poultry Farms.

VLA Warns Hobby Farmers about Infectious Bronchitis
UK - There has been another outbreak of infectious bronchitis virus caused by the QX strain, according to September's Monthly Scanning Surveillance Report from the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA). Backyard flock owners and suppliers are...

Visitors Get a View of Oaklands' Colony System
UK - Hy-Line UK recently welcomed visitors from the Netherlands, Russia and the Ukraine to their head office in Warwickshire.

UK Egg Statistics - Third Quarter 2009
UK - The throughput of eggs through UK packing stations in the third quarter (Q3) of 2009 was 6.11 million cases, 2.1 per cent fewer than the same period of last year. Cage eggs still account for more than half of the market although the share continues...

US Monthly Egg Products Report - October 2009
US - Shell eggs broken totalled 172 million dozen during August 2009, a fall of five per cent from the same month a year ago, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) in their monthly Egg Products report in October...

HPA to Investigate Salmonella Outbreak
UK - The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has set up an investigation following nine outbreaks and two death from Salmonella. Poultry and eggs are considered the most likely sources.

Hy-Line Continues Growth in Bangladesh
BANGLADESH - Kazi Farms, exclusive Hy-Line distributor to Bangladesh since 2001, sells the Hy-Line Brown and Hy-Line W-36 layers throughout the country.

World Egg Day Celebrated in Belize
BELIZE - The Belize Poultry Association celebrated World Egg Day by hosting a symposium on the health benefits of eggs.

Michigan Egg Farmers Concerned over Welfare Bill
MICHIGAN, US - Egg farmers say that the animal welfare bill hit their bottom line.

Officials in Hanoi Reject Bleached Eggs Reports
VIET NAM - The Hanoi government has rejected assertions that made headlines last week about eggs being soaked a solution to make them look like Vietnamese garden eggs.

USDA Chickens and Eggs Report - September 2009
US - US egg production totaled 7.37 billion during September 2009, up slightly from last year, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) in their monthly Chickens and Eggs report for September 2009.

One Million Eggs Donated to Padang Quake Victims
MALAYSIA - The Agriculture and Agro- based Industry Ministry is making arrangements with the Royal Malaysian Air Force to send one million chicken eggs worth RM300,000 to the earthquake victims in Padang, Sumatra.

Group Leader Urges State Govt to Promote Eggs
ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA - Komatlapalli Venkatasubba Rao, president of the West Godavari District Poultry Farmers Federation, yesterday appealed to the State government to introduce egg as part of the menu for the mid-day meal under implementation in schools...

Traders Export to Halt Fall of Local Egg Prices
THAILAND - Egg traders have decided to quickly export 20 million eggs in an attempt to stop local prices from falling further.