Collusion Scandal in South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA - The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), expressed shock yesterday at the latest 'collusion scandal' to befall the poultry industry.

Silver Lining for Rainbow Poultry
SOUTH AFRICA - Rainbow Chicken bucked the trend of falling profits in the poultry sector and managed to squeeze out a 13.6 percent rise in annual profit but it warned yesterday that earnings would likely fall in financial 2009.

Arbor Acres Successful Seminar in SA
SOUTH AFRICA - Aviagen, the world's leading poultry breeding company, recently participated in a series of successful workshops in South Africa.

State-Of-the-Art Hatchery Places Hubbard SA for Superior GP Delivery
SOUTH AFRICA - With the hatchery structure starting to take shape and the building project running according to schedule, the future holds great promise for the team at Hubbard SA.

R1.5 Million Bio-fuels Plant for SA
PRETORIA - South Africa's agro-processing got a boost this week with news of a R1.5 billion investment in a bio-fuels processing facility.

Poultry Falls on High Feed Costs
SOUTH AFRICA - Poultry producers, said to be in an industry with long-term growth potential, stumbled on higher maize feed costs and some oversupply, Country Bird and Sovereign Foods have said.

Early Bird Catches The Worm
SOUTH AFRICA - Festive season revellers will have to think twice about having a braai, as meat prices are expected to soar.

Ostrich Meat Loses EU Status
JOHANNESBURG - The EU health and consumer protection directorate has recommended that South Africa be removed from the EU's list of exporters of ostrich meat, poultry, milk, honey, pork and beef, after failing to provide an approved residue monitoring...

Aviagen On The Road In South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA - Aviagen joined forces with Ross Poultry Breeders (pty) Ltd, the Ross distributor in South Africa, to host a series of seminars to offer management advice and support to customers in the country

Retailers And Producers Happy to Be Friends Of A Feather
SOUTH AFRICA - Have you ever noticed how many adverts there are in the press at the end of the month for discounted chickens? Behind this seemingly innocuous fact lies an interesting story about the often tense relationship between supermarkets and the...

Chubby Chick Doubles Production Capacity
SOUTH AFRICA - Well known South African poultry producer Chubby Chick has signed a major deal with poultry equipment supplier Spartan Equipment in order to double their production capacity from 500.000 birds per week to one million by 2011.

SA lysine duty challanged - could open floodgates
SOUTH AFRICA - The way could be clear for cheap goods to flow into the country as SA clashes with trade partners. This follows a landmark court ruling against the state agency that administers trade tariffs, the International Trade Administration Commission...

Bird-flu scare gives poultry producers little cause to crow
SOUTH AFRICA - SA’s ban on poultry products imported from Germany, which reported an outbreak of bird flu earlier this week, was not expected to hugely benefit local producers, said the Southern African Poultry Association yesterday.

Astral faces ‘huge losses’ in chicken competition dispute
SOUTH AFRICA - Leading broiler chicken producer Astral and its subsidiary Elite, a producer of breeders for the broiler industry, have applied for an urgent hearing by the Competition Tribunal of a matter brought against them by rival broiler producer...

Afgri Needs R410m For Poultry Unit To Fly
CAPE TOWN - Diversified farming group Afgri plans to spend as much as R410 million on capacity extension at its poultry business but it has not yet decided how to raise the funds.

Remgro Still Has Designs on Rainbow
SOUTH AFRICA - Poultry producer Rainbow Chicken would remain listed on the JSE after an offer by Remgro to buy out its minority holding fell through yesterday, the investment holding company said.

Afgri May Seek Poultry Merger
SOUTH AFRICA - Afgri is considering the combination with rivals, including Country Bird Holdings and Sovereign Foods, to help lure investors

Fair Or Fowl: Stock Picking For Chickens
SOUTH AFRICA - Chicken is becoming big business in South Africa, with structural income gains pushing increasingly more consumers towards a protein filled diet, and health consciousness piquing the appetite for chicken amongst the well-heeled.

Afgri To Unbundle Broiler Business In Months
CAPE TOWN - Afgri, the agricultural services business, was looking to unbundle and separately list Daybreak, its vertically integrated broiler business, within six months, managing director Jeff Wright said yesterday.

KFC Cries Foul Over Cruelty Claims By Activists
SOUTH AFRICA - The head of the Eastern Cape division of Kentucky Fried Chicken has cried foul over claims by animal rights activists that the fast food chain treats its chickens cruelly.

Chicken Stock On The Boil
SOUTH AFRICA - Investors making a grab for a stake in the R13-billion industry

State-of-the-art hatchery places Hubbard SA for superior GP delivery
SOUTH AFRICA - With the hatchery structure starting to take shape and the building project running according to schedule, the future holds great promise for the team at Hubbard SA.

South Africa: Food prices to rise
SOUTH AFRICA - Meat is meat but people won’t eat as their pockets begin to shrink.

EU lifts SA ostrich meat ban
SOUTH AFRICA - The European Union Wednesday lifted a two-year ban on South African ostrich meat imposed after bird flu fears which led to the culling of tens of thousands of birds, the agriculture ministry said.

Biodiesel could fuel rural economic revival
SOUTH AFRICA - Research will be conducted into the use of biodiesel waste in animal feed.