The global animal breeding company, Hendrix Genetics, has established a research agreement with the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute to pursue improvements in the sustainability of…
Month: September 2016
Canada’s egg producers have published a five-step explanation of why it is going to take 20 years for farmers to move way from conventional hen housing…
The reduced and targeted use of antibiotics in animal agriculture is just “one piece of the jigsaw” when tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) says the British Veterinary…
There is no simple “sound-bite” answer when it comes to antibiotics says the British Poultry Council (BPC), commenting in a new statement, placed on its website,…
The challenges and opportunities facing the UK broiler industry will be featured as one of 25 scholar presentations, scheduled for inclusion in this year’s Nuffield Farming…
A new study has revealed extremely high levels of E.coli resistant to essential antibiotics for treating serious human E.coli infections on British supermarket chicken and pork.…
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is seeking a new Chair for the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF), the body whose July 2016…
The latest grocery share figures show the market growing at 0.3%, due to an upturn in the weather, which spurred consumers into increasing their spending, according…
The reduced availability of “ridiculously cheap eggs” from the continent in recent days has helped lead an improvement in the wholesale market for colony eggs in…
Noble Foods Group, the UK’s largest egg business, has appointed John Gildersleeve as its new chairman, with the task of overseeing the company’s “ambitious growth strategy…