ABOVE: Being cold smoked, the eggs remain raw, but the process eliminates bacteria. A good wedding anniversary present can be hard to find, but when Julie Kos bought her husband Paul a smoker as a gift, they had no idea how life-changing it would be. They started smoking everything and, as egg farmers, they gave…
DetailsABOVE: Happy hens. Hatched as hens, these Hyline Brown free range hens at Fremantle Egg Company enjoy the good life, laying for about 70 weeks before being turned over. Males hatched at the same time would have been killed. Having advocated in my past two columns for the lives of roosters and cockerels, this month…
DetailsABOVE: New research may help egg farmers further reduce their environmental impact through the diet formulations they feed their hens. With one of the lowest carbon footprints of any animal protein, Australian consumers can already feel good about buying and eating eggs. New research into the nutritional strategies of layer hens conducted by the University…
DetailsABOVE: To reach Australia’s net zero goal by 2050, overcoming initial constraints in the growing alternative energy market will be key to change. The estimated annual cost of energy is already approximately $5.85 billion for the Australian agricultural sector, but this is set to soar as electricity prices double by 2024, according to a recent…
DetailsABOVE: Products may appear cooked but contain raw poultry. Cooking breaded frozen chicken products in the air fryer, microwave or toaster oven won’t protect consumers against foodborne illnesses such as salmonella. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warned on December 2: “Frozen stuffed chicken products remain a source of salmonella outbreaks despite changes to packaging…
DetailsABOVE: The majority of impacts arise from feed production, chicken meat processing and the grow-out phase for the birds. The following was taken from the CSIRO research paper by MA Copley and SG Wiedemann from Integrity Ag and Environment and can be read in full at publish.csiro.au/an/pdf/AN22230 The environmental sustainability of industries and food products…
DetailsABOVE: Danone successfully achieved 100 percent cage-free production throughout its global business and provides the foreword for the EggTrack report. More companies are making global cage-free egg commitments, according to the sixth annual EggTrack report by Compassion in World Farming released recently. Compassion in World Farming is the leading international farm animal welfare charity, campaigning…
DetailsApplications 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…
DetailsIn 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…
DetailsWild 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…
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