Michael Priestley

PAKISTAN - Tax duties for the coming year could constrain both poultry supply and production, the industry has warned.

US - The Egg Industry Center (EIC) is seeking pre-proposals for egg industry-oriented research to fund through its grant award programme.

EUROPE – Two European bodies are collaborating on a common database on vector borne diseases affecting animals and humans.

GLOBAL – Veterinary medicine is in a global dilemma over how to measure the amount of antimicrobial drugs used on farms.

SRI LANKA - The local poultry industry production capacity in Sri Lanka has expanded in 2013. The egg production increased by 33 per cent year on year to 1.942 million while chicken production expanded by 5.2 per cent to…

AUSTRALIA – Poultry farmers around the world could soon have a consistent way of assessing the environmental impact of their operation.

UK - Scottish shoppers can now buy locally produced, premium chicken from free-range farms at a discount supermarket chain.

US - More than 100 participants representing 40 customers from Canada, Mexico and seven countries in Central America and the Caribbean attended the Cobb-Vantress technical seminar at Riviera Maya, Mexico.

INDONESIA - Government efforts are being made to fight the avian influenza virus in Indonesia after the severe hammering the poultry sector took in 2003.

COLOMBIA – Steps are being taken to control and monitor a highly virulent Newcastle disease outbreak in Colombia’s Santander region.

AUSTRALIA – Pork and chicken meat consumption is on the rise as Australian shoppers buy less beef.

BANGLADESH - Poultry feed produced from industry scraps may be putting the health of millions throughout the country at risk, recent studies show.

ISRAEL - The European Union (EU) has recently decided to stop importing poultry and eggs from the West Bank settlements.

US - Energy policy has cost the US poultry sector $44 billion since 2007, a leading industry organisation has announced.

GLOBAL - With ever-widening variety between commercial phytases making direct comparisons almost impossible, and end user choice both difficult and confusing, says AB Vista.

CHINA & TAJIKISTAN – The Chinese deputy agricultural minister Niu Dun and the Tajikistan Prime Minister Qohir Rasulzoda discussed how both countries could collaborate to strengthen the farming sector last week.

UK – A former arable farmer has taken lessons learned from vegetable production and applied it to a broiler enterprise to monitor how contented his birds are. Michael Priestley reports.

SPAIN – Spanish farmers play a significant role in meat production on a European level, poultry and beef producers have been told.

INDIA - Fear of avian influenza loomed across Karnataka state after the Central Poultry Development Organization (CPDO) at Hesaraghatta in Bangalore reported the deaths of more than 3,400 turkeys due to bird flu.

BAHRAIN - Poultry farmers in Bahrain have called off a strike, averting fears of a potential fresh chicken shortage during Ramadan.