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Byline: Andy Coyne US egg major Cal-Maine Foods has temporarily ceased production at a facility in Kansas following an outbreak of avian influenza at the site. The Mississippi-based company, the [...]

COMMERCIAL laying hens lay the majority of their eggs during the morning. The biological egg production process begins with ovulation. The ovulated yoke enters the reproductive tract of the laying [...]

Nabisco's investment of 7,500 hours of employee education and job retraining lays the foundation for the success of its new refrigerated Egg Beaters product. Which came first, the chicken or [...]

Byline: Katy Askew A further eruption of avian influenza at a farm supplying Post Holdings with eggs has prompted the company to declare the outbreak sweeping the US a 'force [...]

Hidden Villa Ranch is addressing a problem in the specialty egg industry by committing to add 600,000 birds over the next year for production across the country to avoid shorting [...]

Remember our story a couple of weeks ago about the contract egg farmers in northwest Arkansas and east Oklahoma whose flocks were being destroyed by the owner? The only farmer [...]

The broiler industry continue to expand after 8 consecutive years of profitability. Out put in 1992 is projected to reach about 20.5 billion pounds, 4 percent higher than in 1991. [...]

California egg producers announced on May 11, the formation of the Association of California Egg Farmers (ACEF). The non-profit trade association will serve as an advocate on state policies affecting [...]

BRITISH poultry farmers cannot meet the rapidly growing demand for free- range eggs because of over-strict RSPCA standards on stocking density, industry experts have warned. Despite EU law recommending a [...]

BRITISH poultry farmers cannot meet the rapidly growing demand for free- range eggs because of over-strict RSPCA standards on stocking density, industry experts have warned. Despite EU law recommending a [...]

The egg then and now: * Decades ago egg-laying hens spent much of their time outdoors and eggs were gathered and packaged by hand. * Today's eggs are produced indoors [...]

Egg producers are taking the view that conditions are reasonable in view of the FMD disruption, with a very strong demand for mediums and packers working overtime to get eggs [...]

Now that doctors are letting us eat eggs again, farmers are working to make eggs taste like they used to Few people are better equipped to say 'If I knew [...]

Since March import volumes up 40,000 cases The steady progression in tightening UK egg production is readily visible in the latest Ministry of Agriculture moving annual totals for packing station [...]

EGGS SET FOR BROILERS AND CHICKS PLACED IN REPORTING STATES Eggs set (thousands) STATE July 8 July 15 July 22 July 29 % [*] Alabama 27,235 28,587 28,670 28,687 104 [...]

Canada's supply management system for eggs will be in jeopardy if changes aren't made in the way it organizes national production levies and quotas, according to Cynthia Currie, chair of [...]

We hear that the Deans Food Group are to close their Kenninghall egg packing plant next [...]

Industrial processing in the USA generates around 120,000 tonnes of waste egg shell annually, and disposal in landfill sites costs about US$100,000 (Eur 97,040) every year. Now research at Penn [...]

The steady growth in recent years of sales of free range and perchery eggs did not happen in 1999, with alternative volumes static. The production base remains at 76% cage [...]

EGGS SET FOR BROILERS AND CHICKS PLACED IN REPORTING STATES Eggs set Chicks placed (thousands) (thousands) STATE Jan. 15 Jan. 22 Jan. 29 % [**] Jan. 15 Alabama 28,764 28,569 [...]

EGGS SET FOR BROILERS AND CHICKS PLACED IN REPORTING STATES Eggs set (thousands) STATE Nov. 27 Dec. 4 Dec. 11 % [**] Alabama 28,169 27,954 [*] 28,338 104 Arkansas 29,920 [...]

Plans to build Germany's largest intensive egg farm in Radeburg, near Dresden, are going ahead despite a recent ruling by the German Constitutional Court which found the current law on [...]

France's national committee for the promotion of eggs, CNPO, has drawn up a series of emergency measures to deal with the effects of the dioxin crisis which have plagued both [...]

* Shropshire-based egg producer Oaklands Farm Eggs has completed a major refinancing package with HSBC Commercial Bank, as it prepares for futher expansion. The new arrangement provides the company with [...]

Animal welfare issues just won't leave producers alone, even for egg producers who have probably the most scientifically valid husbandry standards across livestock and poultry production. All producers are constantly [...]