LivestockSouth Africa's broiler industry, one of the world's cheapest producers after Brazil, warns that failing municipal water and electricity supplies are raising costs, threatening small farmers and opening the door to imports.
OpinionIn a Krishi Jagran column, Elissa Lane argues that corporate cage-free pledges in India and Asia depend on farmers getting training, finance and a clear view of buyer demand.
LivestockThe new case at a poultry farm in Coronel Freitas lies inside the zone already restricted after last week's outbreak at a turkey farm in Nova Itaberaba, Brazil's first since 2024.
LivestockSiphosethu Sydney Nxibelo started with 50 chickens in 2017 on savings from teaching; his Sydney Consult now hatches 2,000 to 8,000 day-old chicks a cycle and farms vegetables and maize on five hectares.
LivestockThe USDA Foreign Agricultural Service projects Canadian per capita chicken consumption at 39.5 kg in 2026 and 39.8 kg in 2027, the highest on record, even as population growth stalls.
LivestockH5N1 avian influenza was confirmed near Belford on 19 October, the second case in Great Britain this season, which has now lost its disease-free status; producers are urged to use funded biosecurity reviews.
LivestockILRI traces the 'nigongee' egg sold at Nairobi bus stops back to the hens, mostly kept by women, and to research on Newcastle vaccination, improved breeds, enriched feed and food safety.
LivestockWith fall migration under way, USDA Under Secretary Dudley Hoskins warned that wild birds spread highly pathogenic avian influenza along every US flyway and asked producers to limit visitors and keep stock away from wild birds.
LivestockDynamic lighting that changes colour and intensity through the 37-day crop improved feed conversion from 1.5 to 1.47 in four broiler houses at IEC Poultry, saving an average £3,580 a crop.
LivestockA USDA grant matched by industry and partners gives NC State $7 million to set up the National Egg Science and Technology (NEST) Program, with a commercial-scale layer research farm and a processing and training centre.
LivestockFrom 8 October the EU has blocked live birds, hatching eggs and fresh poultry meat from six named zones hit by avian influenza, while the rest of the three countries keep trading.
LivestockBangladesh produces 25.9 billion eggs a year against demand of 18.55 billion, but feed prices and disease are pushing up costs, a World Egg Day seminar at Bangladesh Agricultural University heard, along with a call for more vets in each upazila.
OpinionWriting for World Egg Day, A K M Humayun Kabir of Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University says egg output rose from 6.08 billion in 2010-11 to 24.41 billion in 2024-25, and that the gain now has to reach children's diets.
