The Crises Of The Global Grain Supply
AUSTRALIA - Over the past six months, the continuing global grain shortage has led to unprecedented prices for feed grains. Until now, the Australian chicken meat industry has strongly resisted the imperative to raise prices of chicken meat despite...

New Fowlpox Vaccine Available
AUSTRALIA - A new vaccine developed by CSIRO Livestock Industries to help control the common poultry disease, fowlpox, has been registered for commercial use by one of Australia’s leading animal health companies, Intervet Australia Pty Ltd.

Teaching The New Generation Of Poultry Producers
QUEENSLAND - The wide range of careers in the poultry industry was revealed to students competing in the recent 2007 High Schools' Poultry Industry Education competition.

Tasmanian Egg Industry Under Fire Over Intensive Production
AUSTRALIA - An animal welfare group is trying to pull together the biggest petition in Tasmanian history, to stop intensive egg production.

RSPCA Wants Surprise Inspections Of Intensive Farms
UK - The RSPCA is considering lobbying the South Australian Government to allow surprise inspections of intensive farms.

Dealing With Drought: Secure Today, But Prepare For Tomorrow
AUSTRALIA - “To meet the challenges of a changing climate, we need a visionary new approach in the way Australia deals with drought,” National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) President David Crombie declared today.

Australia Lays A Golden Egg
AUSTRALIA - The Australian Egg Industry has been recognised as the best in the world by an international judging committee.

New Weapon In The Fight Against Campylobacter
AUSTRALIA - A Queensland University of Technology researcher has developed a new technique that can help scientists and clinicians quickly and cheaply diagnose the bacteria which causes the most common bout of food poisoning in Australia.

ACT Govt Offers $1m To Convert Egg Farm
AUSTRALIA - The operators of a caged egg farm in Canberra have been offered $1 million by the Australian Capital Territory government to convert to a barn-laid system.

Price Of Bacon And Eggs On The Up
AUSTRALIA - Two of Australia’s food industries today warned consumers that the cost of producing foods present on most households’ shopping lists has risen sharply due to the ongoing high price of grain.

Poultry Plant Closes
AUSTRALIA - hundred workers at Maryborough poultry plant Davis Poultry have lost their jobs after creditors placed the company in liquidation.

Egg Packer Fined $270K For Faking Organic
AUSTRALIA - The organic sector has welcomed a fine handed down to an egg packer, which substituted organic for conventionally produced eggs.

School Kids Bust Urban Chicken Myth
AUSTARLIA - An experiment conducted by students from James Ruse Agricultural High School in Carlingford, NSW has busted a commonly-held belief about Australian chickens.

Food prices could fall as drought eases
AUSTRALIA - Families could pay less for their Christmas dinner this year as the drought eases throughout NSW, state Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald says.

Wealthy countries should fund bird flu aid, says director-general
AUSTRALIA - The head of the World Organisation for Animal Health says wealthy countries should be helping to fund research in developing countries to try to prevent the spread of diseases like bird flu.