Aviagen PhD Student Scoops Scholarship Award
UK - Gillian Hunter, BVMS, MS, MRCVS, a PhD student sponsored jointly by Aviagen and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has been given the Scholarship Award at the recent British Poultry Council Annual Awards Ceremony held...

Flock Health - Using Your Senses
UK - Producers are only too well aware that the costs of investigating production and mortality problems in free range laying flocks can be an expensive business.

Foul Smells Claim Over Chicken Factory
UK - A chicken factory is still making a stink a year after being hit with a massive fine, according to its neighbours.

Jamie's Dinners - Fowl but Fair?
UK - Once again, it seems that Channel 4 is out to shock its audience – this time amidst fears that it will do so at the expense of British farmers, reports FARMINGUK.

Last Restrictions Lifted in UK
UK - Defra has lifted the remaining disease control restrictions put in place following the outbreak of H5N1 Avian Influenza in Suffolk.

Village Loses Fight Against Chicken Farm
UK - Villagers have lost their fight against proposals to build a free range chicken farm despite council officers recommending refusal.

‘Fresh’ Supermarket Chicken Flown in From Brazil
UK - Thousands of tonnes of apparently fresh poultry meat sold in supermarkets and catering outlets is imported and often months old.

USDA Study Highlights Virkon® S Efficacy Against Viruses
UK - Leading researchers at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Centres for Epidemiology and Animal Health have confirmed the excellent on-farm efficacy of DuPont™ Virkon® S in eradicating exotic Newcastle Disease (END) virus in a recent...

A Backbench Squawk for Poultry Welfare
UK - After a month when celebrity chefs decided that they themselves would have to take on failures in the poultry welfare system if anything was to change, the Government is to take action.

NFU Rallies Support Against Cost Sharing
UK - The National Farmers' Union (NFU) on Tuesday issued a rallying call to livestock farmers to voice their feelings on the Government's plans to transfer millions of pounds of the cost of dealing with animal disease outbreaks to the sector and warned...

Bad For Many …But Good for the Christmas Goose
UK - The wet summer may have been bad news for many people ….but it's been great for Christmas geese, according to Judy Goodman, chairman of British Goose Producers.

Liverpudlian Lab Searches the Secrets of Zoonosis
LIVERPOOL - The new National Centre for Zoonosis Research in the UK, dedicated to the study of animal-borne human diseases, will be opened at the University of Liverpool.

Pfizer Strengthens Pig and Poultry Team
UK - Two new senior appointments have been made by Pfizer Animal Health in its UK and Ireland pig and poultry business unit, with Alan Doyle becoming director and James Walton key account manager.

£100 Christmas turkeys: Don't Panic!
UK - Headlines about £100 turkeys are spreading alarm among consumers who normally spend less than half this amount on a Christmas bird, according to Jane Haigh, chairman of the Traditional Farmfresh Turkey Association.

Turkey Welfare Needs to Hatch
UK - More Freedom Food labelled turkeys than ever before will be available this Christmas as consumers step up demand for higher welfare products.

Egg Farm Proposal Gets Go-Ahead
UK - A scheme to build the UK's largest egg farm in the Borders has been approved by councillors. Glenrath Farms Ltd intends to build nine free range poultry houses at Blythbank near West Linton - with each shed housing about 25,000 hens.

Contingency Plan for Exotic Animal Diseases
UK - Defra's revised Contingency Plan for Exotic Animal Diseases was laid before Parliament on 10 December 2007

Food, Climate and Meat Industry Drivers Under Spotlight
UK - Making Sense of Uncertainty is the title of the Meat and Livestock Commission's 2008 Outlook Conference...

Multi million pound company hatches after egg merger
UK - Two of the North West's leading egg suppliers have merged, creating a cracking opportunity for new jobs in the region, according to the business advisors that brokered the deal.

Sales of Boneless Turkeys Soar
UK - It is one of the most enduring images of the traditional Christmas dinner.

CLA Opposes Big Brother Proposals on Poultry Register
UK - Proposals that could see information collected by DEFRA under the pretext of increasing protection against bird flu - released to a much wider audience, have been described as a breach of trust by the CLA, the rural economy experts.

John Lewis Signs up with Red Tractor
UK - Leading department store, John Lewis, has become the first retailer to promote Red Tractor food in its public restaurants.

Don’t think short term over feed costs, urges BPC
UK - Poultry farmers, processors and politicians gathered in the House of Commons in London this week to review the year and to recognise distinguished service to the poultry sector.

New Website for Golden Promise Turkeys
UK - The new website launched by the Traditional Farmfresh Turkey Association (TFTA) this Christmas will make it easier to access a Golden Promise turkey from one of more than 800 stockists across the UK.

Organisations Unite Against Cost Sharing
UK - A coalition of livestock farming organisations from across the UK is calling on the Government to think again on its plans to transfer millions of pounds of the cost of dealing with animal disease outbreaks to livestock farmers still reeling from...