LivestockUSDA's Foreign Agricultural Service forecasts 1.515 million tonnes next year on firm retail and quick-service demand; lower hatchability and higher chick mortality linked to HPAI kept 2026 output at 1.485 million tonnes.
LivestockA June European Commission audit found Thailand's export guarantees undermined by weaknesses in traceability, veterinary controls and HACCP verification; the UFU's Clement Lynch says food security is national security.
LivestockAbsa's AgriTrends Spring 2026 sees the maize market well supplied for the rest of the season; Epol's feed director says feed is about 70 percent of livestock input costs, while a poultry producer warns drought reserves and diesel could keep feed prices where they are.
A North Carolina State University team has built an Excel-based calculator, funded by the US Poultry & Egg Association, that estimates the propane, steam, carbon dioxide or nitrogen a poultry house needs when a flock has to be depopulated after a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak.
Less than a month after the first US shell eggs in more than 20 years reached Singapore, a delegation of ten producers met over 100 buyers, saw their eggs stocked in more than 50 FairPrice stores and launched three egg-based products, as US egg exports run 25% higher in the first half of 2026.
On a surprise visit, Fisheries and Livestock State Minister Sultan Salauddin Tuku told the Central Poultry Farm to produce more day-old chicks, repair unusable sheds and fix its staffing gap.
North Dakota State University Extension is urging commercial and backyard poultry keepers to tighten biosecurity as autumn bird migration begins, after a commercial turkey operation in LaMoure County was confirmed with highly pathogenic avian influenza on 1 September.
The Montana Department of Livestock confirmed HPAI on 17 September in a small commercial chicken flock, the state's first since January; with autumn migration raising the risk from wild waterfowl, the department urges owners to house birds, tighten biosecurity, check flocks twice a day and report su
Farmer Rafiq Mia of Chhotabagi Bazar puts his loss at about Tk 13,300; sub-assistant livestock officer Sanjay Kumar Sikder says an examination of the chicks will settle the cause; the rural electricity society's Md Motahar Uddin advises farmers to keep a back-up heat source.
The district's 34,540 livestock farms, 3,072 poultry farms and 42,124 fish farmers feel the squeeze; poultry farmer Mominul Islam is feeding 60 sacks a month instead of 70 and his broilers are not reaching weight, while dealer Arjun Prasad blames maize prices and the gas and power shortage.
EFSA and the European Commission have published five simple measures for poultry keepers as Europe braces for migrating birds; France, which recorded 156 outbreaks last season, has announced a €10 million aid scheme.
At a FairPlay webinar, the Citrus Growers' Association said eligibility remains under review and a 12.5% tariff still applies, though US buyers, 5% of exports, over 120,000 tonnes last season, must be kept; the poultry association says the 2015 deal let 65,000 tonnes of US chicken in duty-free whi
Loose atta has gone up Tk 5 a kilo and maida Tk 10 in a month; broiler sells at Tk 190-200 a kilo and a dozen brown eggs at Tk 150, unchanged for six weeks.
