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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 [...]

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist is exploring new ways to enhance farm-raised catfish production with a device he calls the 'see-saw.' Les Torrans, a fish biologist with USDA's [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

LAST year marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery of vitamins. Over time, the term 'vitamine' became 'vitamin.' Casimir Funk, first to publish vitamin work, was aware that these substances [...]

Dutch broiler placements rocketed by 14.5% in March to total 34.6 million, according to ZMP. The cumulative total for the first three months of the year was also significantly higher [...]

With the impending move to enriched cages and higher cost systems of production, layer breeders are increasingly focused on lifting egg output in late lay. 'Pretty much all the development [...]

The common cage for an egg-laying hen is about the width of this magazine page. The cage, known as a battery cage and usually one of thousands in a wall, [...]

CASH markets continue to govern most transactions for agricultural products, but an increasing number of transactions are occurring through marketing and/or production contracts--an established and rising trend, according to an [...]

The first shipment of 240,000 pullets marked the start of operations of a $9 million egg factory operated by Dakota Layers Cooperative near Flandreau, S.D. By this summer, more than [...]

THE efficient production of safe meat, milk and eggs begins with the manufacture of high-quality, safe feed. The first step in this process is identifying ingredients and suppliers that can [...]

Ground has been broken to build two new commercial egg production complexes -- one in Arizona and one in South Dakota -- that will distribute shell eggs through the Hickman's [...]

THE U.S. Poultry & Egg Assn. (USPOULTRY) and the USPOULTRY Foundation have announced the completion of a funded research project at Auburn University regarding the development of a novel vaccine [...]

EGG producers continued to ramp up production in light of strong retail prices and favorable feeding margins, According to the monthly 'Chickens & Eggs' report from the U.S. Department of [...]

Within the last year egg prices in Denmark-nark have risen by 23% over the 1995 level, when they fell from Dkr6.12 to Dkr5.00 per kilo. The present price for while [...]

Feedstuffs staff editor Rod Smith was in the Netherlands recently to provide feedback on animal welfare initiatives. There, he visited the Rondell egg production farm in Ewijk in central Holland, [...]

The Austrian turkey market would appear to be reaching saturation point. After years of very high growth rates, turkey production increased by 'only' 4.6% in 1993 and per capita consumption [...]

Cargill Inc. has announced plans to expand its Cargill Kitchen Solutions plant in Mason City, Iowa. The $12.5 million project will begin this summer and will be completed next spring, [...]

Washingtonians for Humane Farms, a coalition of activist groups led by Farm Sanctuary and The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), filed a ballot initiative petition last week in [...]

Egg producers in south Wales will be able to have layer rations mixed and milled to their own specific needs thanks to a [pounds sterling]250,000 upgrade of a local feed [...]

DECIDING against what would be a costly series of court proceedings to put the issue behind it, the United Egg Producers (UEP) has negotiated an agreement with several attorneys general [...]

Christine and Catherine Jackson of Detchant Farm in Northumberland have launched Sunny Hill Free Range Eggs, which will produce almost 10 million eggs next year to RSPCA Freedom Food and [...]

INCREASED RISK OF EXPOSURE TO BIRD FLU IS not usually a consideration for a planning inspector. However, this was the case at a public inquiry on 10 April against the [...]

Marks and Spencer has introduced 700,000 laying hens this spring as part of its aim to be the first food retailer to completely remove battery eggs from its food range. [...]

Significant growth rates were recorded last year for Dutch hatching egg settings for both layer and table poultry chicks. Hatching egg settings to cover national demand for layer chicks in [...]

A total of 14.6 billion eggs were produced in France last year, according to ITAVI, 3% less than in 1996. So-called 'alternative' egg production amounted to 0.8bn eggs, only 5% [...]

French egg supplies from January to October 1997 were lower than in the same period in 1996. Egg production during the first 10 months amounted to just on 11.0 billion [...]