Applications for the 2023 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award and Acceleration Grant have been extended until Wednesday November 16, 2022. With many parts of the country impacted by devastating floods, AgriFutures Australia made the decision to extend applications for the two programs to ensure women across the country have the opportunity to submit their applications. AgriFutures…
In 2022, the Australian chicken meat industry tasked AgriFutures Australia and its Chicken Meat Program with commissioning and managing the industry’s first materiality assessment. The materiality assessment aimed to show which topics – issues, risks and opportunities – were of greatest importance to the industry and its stakeholders, and to inform sustainability efforts across the…
Wild birds come into contact with backyard chicken flocks more frequently than people realise, creating a pathway for pathogens to transmit back and forth, according to new research from the University of Georgia in the US. Such pathways increase the risk for spill-over events that can threaten the health of all these groups – wild…
November 2022 poultry industry headlines: SA and NSW scoop egg industry awards Ideas Exchange indicates poultry industry future Chickens fed hormones or steroids More veneration than consumption Funds and support for Vic’s flood affected Aussie Pumps here to help Free online biosecurity course for meat chicken growers Victorian egg farmers dinner Applications extended for AgriFutures…