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A man works at a machine that prepares chicken eggs for hatching at the Huayu hatchery in Handan, Hebei province, China, June 25, 2018.

A billion eggs a day

How China will transform its poultry sector in the coming years

By Dominique Patton August 1, 2018

Behind a row of sealed red incubator doors in a new facility in northern China, about 400,000 chicks are hatched every day, part of the rapidly modernizing supply chain in China’s US$37-billion egg industry, the world’s biggest. As China overhauls production of everything from pork to milk and vegetables, farmers raising hens for eggs are

Livestock

Olymel to pick up Ontario chicken processor Pinty’s

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 16, 2018

The meat packing arm of agrifood co-operative La Coop federee is set to boost its stakes in the Ontario packaged chicken and appetizer markets with a deal for Pinty’s Delicious Foods. Olymel announced Thursday it will buy Burlington, Ont.-based Pinty’s, including its three southern Ontario chicken slaughter and processing operations at Port Colborne, Paris and

Markets

Chickens culled as Brazil truckers disrupt commodity exports

By Ana Mano, GFM Network News May 29, 2018

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Striking truckers in Brazil have disrupted supply and exports of farm produce from one of the world’s agricultural commodity powerhouses. Brazil is the top global exporter of soybeans, sugar, coffee and chickens. The strike over high fuel prices has paralyzed Latin America’s largest economy, emptied Brazilian roadways and left major

A controlled atmosphere stunning system for chicken processing. (Marel.com)

Livestock

Cargill to replace chicken plant’s stunning system

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 14, 2018

Agrifood firm Cargill has budgeted $22 million to swap out an electric stunning system at its London, Ont. chicken processing plant in favour of a new controlled atmospheric stunning (CAS) system. The CAS system, expected to be up and running this spring, “will help reduce handling stress with chickens, resulting in a higher-quality, more consistent

Backyard chicken flocks are under-regulated, according to a recent U.S. study.

Did you know?, News

Backyard chicken flocks need better management

Study finds this hip trend is raising troubling human and animal health questions

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 19, 2018

It used to be that keeping backyard chickens was a sign of economic hardship. These days however, it’s become an urban hobby and many proponents say they think it will be safer, fresher and more nutritious. A new study from the University of California-Davis is calling that view into question. It suggests local ordinances aren’t

Livestock

KFC closes most U.K. stores due to chicken shortage

By GFM Network News, Reuters February 19, 2018

London | Reuters — Fast-food chain KFC said on Monday it had been forced to close hundreds of its British stores because of a shortage of chicken. The problem arose at the weekend after the chain switched its delivery contract to DHL, forcing the majority of its 900 outlets in Britain to shut. “We’ve brought

News, Poultry

U.S. faces oversupply of antibiotic-free chicken

One of the top U.S. chicken producers says there’s more than eight times as much  supply as demand

By Tom Polansek January 30, 2018

Supplies of chicken raised without antibiotics are outstripping demand, a major U.S. poultry producer said Jan. 16, a sign of overproduction that could eat into processors’ profits. Large chicken and restaurant companies, including Tyson Foods and McDonald’s, have raced to cut antibiotics from poultry supplies as public health experts have warned about the link between

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Chicken, dairy farmers rip TPP concessions

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 25, 2018

Updated, Jan. 25, 2018 — Canada’s supply-managed producer groups warn that the new Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade deal stands to chip away unnecessarily at their markets. Chicken Farmers of Canada on Wednesday said the CPTPP deal, on which Canada pledged Tuesday it will sign in March, still includes concessions on market access

McDonald’s in 2015 launched a billboard campaign in Canada profiling products made using Canadian meat and potatoes. (Dave Bedard photo)

Livestock

McDonald’s sets new welfare standards for chicken suppliers

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek October 27, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — McDonald’s Corp. will require suppliers to improve the living conditions and slaughter process for chickens raised to be served in its restaurants, the company said on Friday, the latest changes affecting popular menu items such as McNuggets. Under new guidelines for animal welfare, suppliers such as Tyson Foods and Cargill must

Livestock

McDonald’s to start cutting global antibiotic use in chickens

By GFM Network News, Reuters August 23, 2017

Los Angeles | Reuters — McDonald’s Corp. on Wednesday said that it would begin curbing the use of important human antibiotics in its global chicken supply in 2018, as the fast-food giant joins a broad effort to battle dangerous superbugs. McDonald’s is requiring suppliers of its broiler chickens to begin phasing out the use of

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives Chicken

A billion eggs a day

Olymel to pick up Ontario chicken processor Pinty’s

Chickens culled as Brazil truckers disrupt commodity exports

Cargill to replace chicken plant’s stunning system

Backyard chicken flocks need better management

KFC closes most U.K. stores due to chicken shortage

U.S. faces oversupply of antibiotic-free chicken

Chicken, dairy farmers rip TPP concessions

McDonald’s sets new welfare standards for chicken suppliers

McDonald’s to start cutting global antibiotic use in chickens

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