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U.S. pitches rule on chicken contracts

By Leah Douglas June 8, 2022

Reuters – The Biden administration proposed a rule May 26 requiring U.S. meat packers to be more transparent in their dealings with contract farmers, in an effort to enhance competition in the highly consolidated industry. Farmers and consumer groups have argued for decades that consolidation in the beef, pork and chicken sectors, where four companies

The feather sector in Manitoba could be facing the arrival of high-path avian influenza as migratory birds from hot zones to the south touch down in the province.

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Poultry sector in the line of fire

Experts concerned that migratory birds from the U.S. might bring Manitoba’s first brush with highly pathogenic avian flu in 12 years

By Alexis Stockford April 7, 2022

The province’s chief veterinary authority is watching this year’s arrival of migratory birds with a wary eye. This year, it worries, those birds may come with a side order of highly pathogenic avian flu (H5N1). As of March 31, the U.S. Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) had confirmed avian influenza at 95 farm sites,

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Lethal bird flu hits Delaware poultry farm

By Tom Polansek February 24, 2022

Reuters – A commercial poultry farm in Delaware with 1.2 million birds has been hit by a highly lethal form of bird flu, the state said Feb. 23, significantly expanding an outbreak that has killed U.S. chickens and turkeys. The outbreak brings the total number of commercial U.S. poultry birds affected by the disease to

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Germany orders 20,000 turkeys culled as bird flu found on another farm

By Reuters February 10, 2021

About 20,000 turkeys will be slaughtered after bird flu was found on another poultry farm in Germany, authorities said Jan 29. Type H5N8 bird flu was confirmed in a farm in the Ludwigslust-Parchim area in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, said the Ludwigslust-Parchim local government authority. A series of outbreaks of bird flu have been

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China finds coronavirus cluster in chicken-processing plant

Some concerned consumers are already avoiding the product and one grocer has pulled it from shelves

By Dominique Patton January 29, 2021

Reuters – China reported its first cluster of COVID-19 cases among workers in a meat-processing plant, raising fears among local consumers who have until now mainly worried about the safety of imported foods. Ten confirmed cases were found in a factory which slaughters 50 million chickens a year in the northeastern city of Harbin and

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Germany orders 29,000 chickens culled after bird flu found on farm

By Reuters December 11, 2020

About 29,000 chickens will be slaughtered in Germany after bird flu was found on another poultry farm, authorities said on Dec. 3. Type H5N8 bird flu was confirmed in a farm in the eastern area of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state government said. The 29,000 chickens are now being slaughtered and a 10-kilometre observation area

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Fast-spreading bird flu puts EU poultry industry on edge

By Sybille De La Hamaide December 7, 2020

Reuters – A highly contagious and deadly form of avian influenza is spreading rapidly in Europe, putting the poultry industry on alert with previous outbreaks in mind that saw tens of millions of birds culled and significant economic losses. The disease, commonly called bird flu, has been found in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Britain, Belgium,

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Germany may cull up to 70,000 chickens as bird flu found on another farm

By Reuters December 1, 2020

Bird flu has been found on another chicken farm in Germany and a program to slaughter up to 70,000 poultry is being prepared, authorities said Nov. 17. Type H5N8 bird flu was confirmed in a farm near Rostock in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, said a spokesman for the local government authority Landkreis Rostock. About

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China suspends poultry imports from second U.S. plant over COVID-19

By Tom Polansek September 18, 2020

Reuters – China has suspended imports from an OK Foods poultry plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas, because of coronavirus cases among workers, the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council said Sept. 15. China, the world’s top meat importer, has blocked products from some plants in foreign countries as part of an all-out effort to control

Some feed mills and slaughterhouses in China are still shut due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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China’s chicken chain comes unstuck

Chaos of virus measures has derailed a sector that enjoyed rapid growth

By Dominique Patton, Hallie Gu February 28, 2020

Reuters – China’s chicken farmers had been looking forward to a bumper year. But an unprecedented lockdown on people and goods to curb the coronavirus outbreak has disrupted the short but intense poultry life cycle, threatening output of meat just as the world’s most populous country faces a massive pork shortfall. China’s poultry production expanded

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U.S. pitches rule on chicken contracts

Poultry sector in the line of fire

Lethal bird flu hits Delaware poultry farm

Germany orders 20,000 turkeys culled as bird flu found on another farm

China finds coronavirus cluster in chicken-processing plant

Germany orders 29,000 chickens culled after bird flu found on farm

Fast-spreading bird flu puts EU poultry industry on edge

Germany may cull up to 70,000 chickens as bird flu found on another farm

China suspends poultry imports from second U.S. plant over COVID-19

China’s chicken chain comes unstuck

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