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Confidence in the broiler sector bounced back in June, bringing the biggest rise in day-old chick placings this year. Compared with June a year ago, chick numbers last month were up by 2.5% to 95.3m. See also: Firm announces plans to buy 1.6m tonnes of poultry litter...
THE recent downturn in feed prices has come to an abrupt end with the untimely collapse of the Black Sea agreement. This has pushed feed costs back up again although, as yet, it has been a small increase in the overall context of the last 12 months. See also: £1m...
Egg production in the UK is still heading upwards, but it still has a long way to go. Latest figures for pullet chick placings show a continued year-on-year rise for the ninth consecutive month. This increase in bird numbers is now starting to have a significant...
THE recent sharp decline in ration costs looks for now to have run its course. By the start of this month, both wheat and soya prices had turned upwards again in response to less encouraging news about supply prospects. See also: Warning over battery egg imports with...
BRAZIL and the risk of avian influenza hitting major poultry-producing states has been described as a major "wildcard" for the global chicken meat trade in Rabobank's latest quarterly outlook. More broadly, with lower feed prices expected and demand remaining...
BROILER output in the UK has just recorded its most significant monthly decline in recent years. Production of broiler meat during May was down by 11.4% compared with a year earlier (measured as carcase weight), according to the latest Defra figures. See also:...
TRADE with the European Union must be placed on a level playing field, the British Poultry Council's chief executive Richard Griffiths has said. British exporters of poultrymeat have faced higher costs since 1 January 2021, contributing to the cost of production...
RABOBANK has released an analysis of the global egg market, which suggests several factors that could hinder the expansion the sector has seen over the past 15 years. For developed markets, the report finds disease, cost inflation, changing regulations and consumer...
UK broilers have been getting heavier in recent years, according to Defra data, but not by enough to offset the recent drop in chick placings. From 2019 to 2022, the average annual slaughter weight of home-produced birds has risen by 110g, from 2.24kg to 2.35kg. See...
THE United States has approved the sale of laboratory-grown meat using chicken cells produced by two Californian companies. Both Upside Foods and Good Meat have won approval from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration...
Sharp falls in the price of both wheat and soya have brought a dramatic fall in spot rations costs. However, the unpredictability of the situation for Black Sea supplies, further compounded by the flooding of Ukrainian farmland after the damage to the Kherson dam,...
NFU Scotland has said the government supply chain investigations taking place in agricultural sectors such as eggs should be extended to poultrymeat. The union said that cost pressures placed on poultry farmers were increasingly leading to the risk of empty...