DOING things differently is a great way to stand out from the crowd, and when it comes to free range chicken farming, that’s quite a crowded space to be playing in. So when Mount Cotton, Queensland-based Golden Cockerel (jointly owned by Woodlands Enterprises and Darwalla Group) looked to branch out and explore a niche in…
NEXT year in February the University of Sydney – Poultry Research Foundation, in conjunction with the World Poultry Science Association, will host the 30th anniversary of the Australian Poultry Science Symposium. APSS is the premier poultry science meeting in Australasia and is held in substantial international regard, evident by the increasingly diverse international speakers and…
OUR focus this month has continued to be on engagement activities with the view to building capacity. This allowed us to meet George the Farmer, a jovial children’s character whose mission is to help children understand more about agriculture. Since he was first launched in July 2014 as an interactive story app, the George the…
SPECIALISED Breeders Australia recently announced it has completed and stocked a new rearing farm in central Victoria. This new farm will rear Hy-Line and Lohmann parent stock from which commercial Hy-Line and Lohmann Brown Layers are bred. This completed project is the second of four planned new farms that provide world-class supply security to Australian…