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Poultry farmers demand fair price
Poultry farmers are demanding a fairer price for their poultry, one that covers their increasing costs of production with soaring feed prices leaving…
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No new egg producers until late 2011
Noble Foods has dampened speculation that it is looking to take on new producers. Rumours reaching the Ranger magazine suggested that Noble was…
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Retailers and farmers look to squeeze the middle
A food retail expert tried to offer some reassurance to hard-pressed egg producers and other farmers involved in the poultry sector when he was…
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Pullet, chick and vaccines prices set to rise
Some free range egg producers could find themselves paying nearly £4 per bird for pullets come the New Year. Producers have already been hit by large…
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Record delegates expected at BFREPA Conference
This year’s BFREPA conference seems set to be bigger than ever, despite recent difficulties in the free range egg market. More than 600 delegates are…
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Warning of further feed increases
Free range egg producers are being warned to brace themselves for further increases in the cost of feed. Tom Hind, head of economic and international…
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Intra-EU ban needed for ‘illegal eggs’??
Three of the EU’s largest egg-producing states have conceded that they will fail to meet the deadline for a ban on conventional laying cages. The…
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Government lifts beak trimming ban at EPIC
The Government has now taken action to lift the ban on beak trimming due to come into force at the beginning of 2011. Agriculture Minister Jim Paice…
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Innovative air cleaning for the poultry industry
Innovative air cleaning launched for the poultry industry New technology to remove micro-organisms from the most crucial areas of poultry production…
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Couple plant trees on land roamed by hens
A couple whose sound environmental values drive their free range egg business are planting an orchard of apple trees on the land roamed by their hens…
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