Genetics

WOODSTOCK, Ontario, Canada - A new $15 million hatchery is being built in the Canadian province of Ontario

2nd Edition. Dr Phillip Sponenberg, Alison Martin and Jeanette Beranger

Rachel Lane investigates how identifying and storing the genetic marker for turkey fertility could change the industry

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is partnering in the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), biology's version of the moonshot, an effort that will yield millions of powerful new solutions to agriculture's challenges

Hy-Line International, the world leader in layer poultry genetics, has added to its Southeast Asia team Ms. Princess Cortez as Technical Service Specialist. She will be based in the Philippines.

A powerful alliance of 52 organisations have set out their stall for how to eat meat and dairy more sustainably

Charoen Pokphand Foods PLC commits to sustainability and welfare improvement targets in 2017 sustainability report

WASHINGTON – As new, alternative “beef” products make their way onto grocery store shelves, National Farmers Union (NFU) is encouraging federal officials to establish labelling requirements that better inform consumers a…

Hy-Line International, the world leader in layer poultry genetics, is pleased to announce its layer breeding stock distributor, Hy-Line do Brasil, has been awarded compartmentalisation status by the Brazilian Ministry of…

New suite of documents offer in-depth advice for Aviagen’s slower-growing and colored bird portfolio.

Jamesway Incubator Company is very pleased to be offering a series of webinars which tap into the vast knowledge of our hatchery professionals

Aviagen to feature chicken and turkey breeding programs and genetics expertise at New Zealand conference.

Learn more about Cobb-Vantress and how the genetics company is driving the poultry industry forward at the 2018 International Poultry Processors Expo (IPPE) opening in Atlanta on January 30.

“We are achieving progress in all lines faster than has ever been seen before,” noted Dr. Danny Lubritz, research and development director for Hy-Line International, in a recent discussion regarding Hy-Line’s intensified…

Sigma Organic Feed Div. announces a doubling of its supply of Hi-Pro Non-GMO Organic Soybean Meal to 3,000 MT per month. Proprietary and specific heat and mechanical processing system assures a finished soy protein with …

A significant expansion in Asian Pacific sales of the Cobb500 broiler breeder during the past three years has led Cobb to become the region’s breed of choice for the first time. The Cobb Asia team recently gathered at Pa…

US - According to a new study from scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the common practice of growing influenza vaccine components in chicken eggs disrupts the major antibody target site on the virus sur…

Pigeons are capable of switching between two tasks as quickly as humans - and even more quickly in certain situations. These are the findings of biopsychologists who had performed the same behavioural experiments to test…

EASTERN AFRICA - The earliest introduction of domestic chickens and black rats from Asia to the east coast of Africa came via maritime routes between the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

US - A new way of producing the seasonal flu vaccine could speed up the process and provide better protection against infection.