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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Global Grain Balance Forecast Tightened
GLOBAL - Continued deterioration of cereal crop prospects over the past two months, due to unfavourable weather conditions in a number of major producing regions, has led to a sharp cut in FAO’s world production forecast since the previous report in...

Egg Force Reader Aids Government Test Shell Strength
GLOBAL - Dan Dan Bachrach, an expert in raising laying hens with the Training Service at Israel's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development purchased ORKA’s Egg Force Reader (EFR) for research purposes a year ago....

New Aviagen School Gets off to Flying Start
GLOBAL - The first module of Aviagen’s new Production Management School for customers based in Europe, Turkey, the Middle East and Africa has now been completed and received high praise from attendees. The new School was created following huge demand...

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Development in Livestock Sector Could Reduce Poverty
GLOBAL - A new FAO publication says carefully tailored policy and institutional changes can help to unlock the livestock sector's poverty reduction potential....

Monday, September 10, 2012

Mixed Probiotic Reduces Campylobacter Colonisation in Chicks
GLOBAL - An international collaboration of scientists has shown, in two experiments, a reduction in caecal colonisation by Campylobacter jejuni in broiler chicks after the administration of an avian-specific probiotic....

Friday, September 07, 2012

FAO Food Price Index Holds Steady
GLOBAL - The FAO Food Price Index averaged 213 points in August 2012, unchanged from July. ...

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Weekly Overview: New Approaches to Welfare Assessment
ANALYSIS - From France and the US in the last week has come news of new approaches to animal welfare. INRA of France has set up an expert group to examine how pain can best be avoided or managed in food animals, and another group is being set up by US-based...

Direct Relationship between Animal Health, Food Safety Outcomes
GLOBAL - Many groups in society, including politicians, activists, scientists, and stakeholders, are advocating significant changes to livestock production practices, according to the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST). ...

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

China-Swedish Agriculture Agreement Signed
CHINA & SWEDEN - A six-point agreement on agricultural cooperation and research was signed when Chinese Agriculture Minister Han Changfu met with Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs, Eskil Erlandsson last week, during his four-day visit to Sweden....

Friday, August 31, 2012

Can Economics Add Value to Animal Health Policy-making?
ANALYSIS - The risk of disease among farm animals and farm biosecurity are a public affair, writes Chris Harris. ...

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Weekly Overview: World Water Week Focuses Attention on Priorities
ANALYSIS - World Water Week takes place this week, just as issues of drought and excessive rainfall are daily in the news. Water is a precious resource and one we would do well to use wisely. One US chicken company has announced a further cut in production...

Climate Change Could Increase Levels of AI in Wild Birds
GLOBAL - Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, more intense rainstorms and more frequent heat waves are among the planetary woes that may come to mind when climate change is mentioned. Now, two University of Michigan researchers say an increased risk of...

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Control of Bird Flu Explored at World Congress
ANALYSIS - Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have tended to be more severe and prolonged in less developed countries with a high poultry density, according to avian flu expert, Dr David Swayne. Stamping out is the best method for...

LIMA Separators Worldwide Coverage
AFRICA - Last year, Lima formed a distribution agreement with Food Processing Machinery Company to cover Kenya and the neighbouring Eastern African countries. ...

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Novus Receives New Product Innovation Award in Prebiotics
GLOBAL - Novus International, Inc. has been selected to receive the 2012 North American New Product Innovation Award in Prebiotics for PREVIDA. The award is presented by Frost & Sullivan, a 50-year old global research organization of 1,800 analysts and...

Drought Highlights Need for Better Water Management
GLOBAL - Drought in some parts of the world has hurt global grain production and contributed to food price spikes virtually every other year since 2007, highlighting the need to transform the way water is used - and wasted - throughout the entire food...

Monday, August 27, 2012

Drought, Shortages, Rising Food Prices for World Water Week
ANALYSIS - This week is World Water Week - a week when governments, environmental organisations, industry and agriculture is turning its attention to the importance of this vital resource, writes Chris Harris. ...

COOL on Disputes Body Agenda
GLOBAL - Anti dumping measure on shrimp products from Viet Nam and the US Country of Origin Labelling rules are among the topics to be discussed at the next meeting of the World Trade Organisation Disputes Settlement Body. ...

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Weekly Review: Poultry Hit the Medical Headlines
ANALYSIS - Two news items this week from the medical research world have put the poultry industry back in the firing line again as links have been made to negative impacts on human health: one links egg consumption to heart disease and another suggests...

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Biotronic Top3 Wins Innov'Space 2012 Award
GLOBAL - Modern livestock production faces the challenge of having to achieve higher levels of productivity and delivering high-quality products at the same time, according to Biomin, yet optimum growth performance in livestock production is continuously...

George Watts Named Secretary General of IPC
GLOBAL - George Watts, who retired last year as president of the National Chicken Council (NCC), has been named secretary general of the International Poultry Council (IPC). He assumed the position during the IPC’s recent annual meeting in Praia do...

Broilers Next on Agenda for Aviagen Production School
EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA - Aviagen has announced that the second module of the new Production Management School for customers based in Europe, Turkey, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will be held in Turkey between 29th October and 5th November 2012....

Friday, August 17, 2012

JBS Reports Strong Performance by Mercosul Group
BRAZIL & US - Among the highlights of the second quarter (2Q12) report from JBS SA are an increase of 26 per cent in net revenue. Consolidated EBITDA surpassed one billion Real (BRR) and adjusted Net Income was BRR213 million. ...

Thursday, August 16, 2012

IPC Warns of Higher Poultry Prices, Global Feed Shortages
GLOBAL - The International Poultry Council (IPC) is concerned that the current world grain shortage caused by prolonged drought situation in the soybean and corn producing regions in the United States, coupled with excessive rains in Northern Europe,...

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

US Grains Council: Global Analysis of Grain Supply
GLOBAL - In its monthly agricultural supply and demand update, the US Department of Agriculture again lowered the outlook for US corn production, reflecting the continued deterioration of this year's crop due to the once-in-a-lifetime drought that affects...