(Reuters) — Tyson Foods is reintroducing certain antibiotics to its chicken supply chain and will drop its “no antibiotics ever” tagline from Tyson-branded chicken products. This will involve drugs that the company said are not important to human health. The antibiotics that Tyson plans to add to some of its chickens’ diets are known as […] Read more
Proposition 12 could bring big trouble for the livestock trade
Gary Stordy, a former CPC director, said the law would affect Canada’s pork industry, which exported nearly five million feeder pigs, more than 1.5 million market hogs and more than 1.4 million tonnes of finished pork products to the United States in 2021.
Chickens, egg production seen at ‘beak level’
Officially named the Manitoba Egg Farmers Learning and Research Centre at the Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Centre, the facility attempts to combine three main things: research for academics, industry professionals and farmers; technical education for students and industry people; and awareness and outreach about egg production for the public.
Eggs are a good example of catering to consumer demand
Eggs offer a stunning plethora of choices for consumers while still offering one of the cheapest, nutrient-rich proteins. Eggs aren’t just eggs anymore.
U.S. agriculture burns down the barn to feed CAFO culture
The number in the New York Times headline from April 13 was hard to fathom: “About 18,000 Cattle Are Killed in Fire at Dairy Farm in Texas.” The then-known facts — very few have been forthcoming since — were sparse. Around 7 p.m. on April 10, a fire roared through a dairy barn near Dimmit, […] Read more
Tyson closure raises concern
(Reuters) — Tyson Foods Inc. gave its chicken suppliers two months’ notice of its plan to shut a Virginia processing plant in May, raising concerns among farmers and legal experts about the company’s compliance with antitrust regulations requiring it to give 90 days’ notice before ending a contract. The planned closure of the plant has […] Read more
Manage coops for humidity, not temperature
Backyard chicken producers are urged to make sure they understand housing basics before bringing the birds home
The price of eggs — not to mention the idea of fluffy chicks — is enough to get even a confirmed suburbanite thinking about the merits of keeping a backyard flock these days. But eager chicken fanciers shouldn’t get ahead of themselves, says Cassandra Kirkpatrick, the urban hen and small flock programming instructor for the […] Read more
University launches adopt-a-chicken program
A University of Alberta program to preserve heritage chicken genetics is operating an adopt-a-chicken funding plan to provide eggs to participants. The university’s Faculty of Agriculture has been running its Rare Poultry Conservation Program since 1986. The university launched its adopt-a-chicken program in 2013 to help preserve seven different species ranging from Rhode Island red […] Read more
U.S. nears record poultry deaths from bird flu; virus type complicates fight
CHICAGO, (Reuters) - A near-record number of U.S. chickens and turkeys have died in this year’s outbreak of avian flu, as a different form of the virus than farmers battled before has infected more wild birds that then transmit the disease, officials said. More than 47 million birds have died due to infections and cullings. This has spurred export bans, lowered egg and turkey production, and contributed to […] Read more
Avian flu appears ready for surge as migration season gets underway
Fears that avian influenza will return to infect domesticated birds as migratory birds head south are being realized. All four western provinces are reporting cases and poultry producers are bracing for another wave of the bird flu. Between Sept. 12 and 17, four farms in Alberta have had positive cases of avian influenza reported with […] Read more
