RURAL Funds Management Limited, as responsible entity for Rural Funds Group (ASX:RFF) has entered into agreements for the sale of RFF’s poultry assets to ProTen Investment Management Pty Ltd as trustee for ProTen Investment Trust for $72 million, subject to certain conditions. RFF owns 17 broiler chicken farms, 11 of which have an average age…
ON World Egg Day (October 11), Yum Yum Bakery in Guildford, NSW took out the title of having Australia’s Best Egg Dish in the 2019 Eggsellence Awards. Following a nationwide hunt to uncover the most delicious and diverse egg dishes in Australia, Australian Eggs hosted a ‘d-egg-ustation’ pop-up on the eve of World Egg Day…
THE expression ‘run around like a headless chook’, meaning to be very busy doing a lot of things but not effectively, is one saying that even the most organised person can relate to at one time or another. Producers, even those with staff, are faced with a constant pressure to meet the requirements of the…
November 2019 poultry industry headlines: Eggciting new egg grading game Keeping calm with support from EFA Different drivers and sizes pushing down egg prices Biosecurity critical to infectious bursal disease protection The nation’s best egg dish crowned on World Egg Day Queensland United Egg Producers annual general meeting AgriFutures Chicken Meat Program researcher spotlight: Dr…
WITH more than 3000 attendees and a jam-packed program of exhibitors, speakers, young change-makers and more, Global Table set the bar high in its first year. The first-ever Global Table concluded recently with a record-breaking 3037 people attending the event from 29 countries. This makes the event the largest of its kind in the Asia-Pacific…
WORLD Egg Day is celebrated around the world and helps to raise awareness of the benefits of eggs and their importance in human nutrition. What is World Egg Day? World Egg Day was established at the International Egg Commission Vienna 1996 conference when it was decided to celebrate World Egg Day on the second Friday…
October 2019 poultry industry headlines: World Egg Day – October 11 Excellent Ideas Exchange 2019 Bipartisanship sought on animal activists ACMF statement – meat intake and cancer risk Modernising agricultural research and development Activists face five years jail New high-head cutter pumps Finding facts and figures for feathered friends Global Table’s inaugural event a record…
BIOSECURITY New Zealand is responding to a possible detection of a poultry virus, Infectious Bursal Disease Virus type 1 in a layer egg farm in Otago. Biosecurity New Zealand response manager David Yard, said, “No birds at the Mainland Poultry farm in Waikouaiti have disease symptoms and the farm itself is under voluntary biosecurity controls…
ALL production systems, conventional cage, aviary, pre-enriched, barn and free range are at risk. Animal activists and vegans are working hard to take out one egg production system at a time and who is working for your business to help stop this? Egg Farmers of Australia are your advocacy organisation for the egg industry. Egg…
September 2019 poultry industry headlines: Poultry Hub Australia out and about in August Do you want egg production in Australia to cease? Bipartisan solution needed for animal activists Biosecurity New Zealand and industry managing suspected chicken virus The UWA institute of agriculture releases annual research report 2018 Women in Poultry: Jonna May Hernandez Concern over…