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The Oxford Real Farming Conference 2021 is bringing 500 speakers together to explore regenerative agriculture and solutions to climate change.

In the run-up to the COP26 Climate Conference, farmers and communities from 75 countries gather at global summit to show how farming can help fix the climate crisis.

New research from the Animal Welfare Institute estimates that millions of farm animals died in barn fires in 2020, with cage-free hens at particular risk.

The UK Government has announced an interim climate target, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68 percent by 2030.

Over time Costco plans to transition to cage-free eggs

A new initiative to make free range poultry production more beneficial to birds, bees and butterflies has been launched by the UK's Traditional Norfolk Poultry (TNP).

UK grocer Morrisons is helping free-range egg farmers create biodiverse farmland and giving them a greater share of retail profits.

South Korea announced a ban on free-range chickens and ducks until early 2021 as it struggles to contain an outbreak of avian influenza.

The European Commission has received the "End the Cage Age" citizens' initiative, moving it closer to implementation.

The RSPCA says that a post-Brexit subsidy scheme that incentivises improved animal welfare outcomes could help millions of farm animals in Wales.

“The first batch was great!” The Glicksman family – father Yona and his sons Benny and Moshe – from Gedera, 50 kilometres south of Tel Aviv, are perfectly happy with their new rearing aviary.

Compassion in World Farming's EggTrack report highlights the global progress in companies sourcing cage-free eggs in the context of COVID-19.

The 2020 Quality and Welfare Egg China Summit, co-sponsored by FAI Farm, China Animal Health and Food Safety Alliance (CAFA) and IQC, was successfully held in Shanghai on October 15. The Summit received strong support fr…

After multiple cases of organic food fraud eroded consumer confidence, the USDA moves to strengthen its oversight of organic production.

UK free range egg producers warn that the sector's rapid expansion risks oversupplying the market, driving down profits and reducing producer income.

Date: 15-16,October 2020

The RSPCA is urging residents of Bradford, Yorkshire to write to their MP this week before a critical vote on the UK’s Agriculture Bill on 1 October.

The British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA) to launch Costings Portal that allows farmers to price compare eggs with other farmers.

The poultry industry’s gradual switch to cage-free egg production has underscored the need to rethink disease-control programs and address health and welfare challenges unique to layers in these production systems, accor…

More than 200 US retailers have agreed to switch to free-range egg production by 2025.