Supermarkets to continue selling battery-laid eggs
NEW ZEALAND - Egg producers and supermarkets say there are no plans to follow British supermarkets and phase out the sale of battery-laid eggs.

SPCA calls on shoppers to buy 'cage-free' eggs
NEW ZEALAND - The SPCA says New Zealand supermarket chains should follow the latest big British food retailer and set deadlines for ending sales of eggs from battery hens.

New feed mill to quadruple production
NEW ZEALAND - Construction of a $3 million feed mill is under way at Morrinsville feed firm Seales Ltd.

Poultry prices up 7.1 percent
NEW ZEALAND - Food prices increased 0.1 percent in the February 2007 month, Statistics New Zealand said today. The main contribution came from higher prices for the meat, poultry and fish subgroup (up 1.7 percent), driven by higher prices for poultry...

Grain costs to force New Zealand egg prices up
NEW ZEALAND - The Egg Producers Federation predicts that the rising cost of grain will force egg prices up within the next few months - due to the Australian drought.

Grain price surge will help NZ farmers
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand dairy farmers will benefit enormously from an inevitable increase in international grain prices, says Irish dairying guru Michael Murphy.

Poultry and apples main factor in food price rise
NEW ZEALAND - Higher prices for poultry and apples were the main cause of a 1.4 per cent rise in food prices in January, Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) says.

Next step taken by chicken farmers - going organic
NEW ZEALAND - Heuvel Farms Ltd’s resource consent to operate its free-range intensive organic chicken farm at Muriwai has now been publicly notified.

NZ exporters 'will shine' in new UK food labelling plan
NEW ZEALAND - A UK supermarket's proposal to label products so customers can compare carbon footprints can't come soon enough, says Federated Farmers national president Charlie Pedersen.

MAF failed to act on NZ Battery Hen Farm
NEW ZEALAND - The Egg Producers Federation (EPF) today said that they knew the Somerdale Poultry Lodge that activists raided on the weekend was operating illegally. Michael Brooks from the EPF said they had laid complaints with MAF Animal Welfare and...

More activist raids on NZ battery hen farms likely
NEW ZEALAND - Expect more missions to "liberate" battery hens, a veteran activist says in the wake of the latest raid on a battery hen farm.

Loss Of Major NZ Poultry Slaughterhouse Causes Welfare Concern
NEW ZEALAND - The recent fire that destroyed Tegel's only South Island poultry slaughterhouse could have serious ramifications for the welfare of hundreds of thousands of chickens, causing SAFE, New Zealand's second largest animal advocacy organisation,...

Resistance to antibiotics worries scientists
NEW ZEALAND - More than 26,000kg of antibiotics are fed to New Zealand chickens every year, triggering high levels of antibiotic resistance and worrying scientists.

New Zealand rejects claim livestock biggest environmental threat
NEW ZEALAND - Prime Minister Helen Clark and a farming leader in New Zealand, one of the world's biggest agricultural producers, rejected on Monday a United Nations' claim that cattle and other livestock were a bigger threat than cars to the global environment....

Australian drought pushing up NZ poultry costs
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealanders are about to feel the impact of Australia's big drought as grain prices across the Tasman soar by as much as 80 per cent.