Sunday 27 May 2012
Poultry
Optimism for the future of the British pig, poultry and egg sectors is strong among visitors and industry representatives. Improving prices and fairer regulations across Europe mean more producers have greater confidence in their business than they have had in recent years. And while the industry still faces challenges in the face of rising...
Delegates at the International Egg Commission Spring conference in Venice at the end of March heard the recurring theme from speaker that ’Trust’ is your most valuable asset. Successful businesses from all sectors, whether they be small or large have to be ’trusted’ by their customers to provide not just a safe, quality prod...
At the time of writing, Monday 30th April, the market in the UK remains surprisingly strong, reflecting the continuing high retail demand for colony egg products since Easter. This is despite the progressively improving position on colony egg availability. Packers continue to have low stocks, and the position should start to improve during May when...
A new buy British initiative will be launched at this year’s Pig and Poultry Fair later this month. Producers, processors and suppliers will be encouraged to promote the best of British food and farming as part of an initiative to boost sales of home-grown pork, poultry and eggs. The egg industry has already been encouraging consumers, ret...
Free range egg producers are being warned that the current boom in producer prices could be followed by another bust unless the egg industry exerts greater control over production. A mini-price war seems to have broken out amongst packers since the introduction of the European Union’s ban on conventional cages led to a shortage of eggs acr...
A British MEP has called for a complete ban on cage egg systems, including the new colony systems introduced to comply with the European Union battery cage ban. Keith Taylor, a member of the Green Party who represents Sussex and the South East in the European Parliament, says the EU ban on conventional cages does not go far enough. He said i...
John Retson, chairman of the British Free Range Egg Producers’ Association (BFREPA) recently met Agriculture Minister Jim Paice in London to discuss the current state of the egg industry and the egg shortages that have arisen in the United Kingdom and across the rest of the European Union. The shortages have followed the introduction of th...
Charlie Stephenson, a council member of the British Free Range Egg Producers’ Association (BFREPA), has said the Government’s target date for banning beak trimming cannot be met. Charlie, who sits on the Beak Trimming Action Group (BTAG), was asked about progress on beak trimming during a meeting of BFREPA members at Wetherby in York...
Just over two years ago, at a board meeting around the kitchen table, an established farming family made the radical decision to push into the unknown and diversify into egg production. With a steep learning curve ahead, Clive Patrick, son-in-law to farm owner Tony Reynolds, reveals whether joining the poultry industry has lived up to the famil...
Martin Smith has been appointed area business manager for Ufac-UK. After graduating from the University College of North Wales with a BSc in zoology, Martin pursued a career in the animal feed industry, first with feed compounders then with specialist probiotic, vitamin and supplement manufacturers in both the ruminant and monogastric sectors. ...
Demand for free range eggs has driven a huge increase in egg consumption in Australia over the last 12 months. Whilst figures held by the British Egg Industry Council show that egg consumption in this country increased by just one per cent in 2011, consumption in Australia increased by seven per cent. Retail sales of free range eggs increased by...
FREE West Country Layers Association conference will give producers the chance to ask the burning questions resulting from the European conventional cage ban. The conference theme is 2012 and Beyond – Where Now? and aims to provide an update on the industry situation since the ban on conventional cages that came into effect in January. Key note...
Noble Foods and Stonegate have both responded to recent moves in the egg market by announcing increases in producer prices. Noble’s wrote to their producers to say that prices would be increased by 10 pence a dozen for all producers and for all grades from March 17. The company’s previous announcement of a three pence increase on sec...
At the time of writing, Tuesday 6th March, the overall UK market has become exceptionally strong, continuing to reflect the current reduced availability of colony eggs and the typical seasonal uplift in demand. This is expected to be a temporary situation; as new colony units come on stream the availability shortfall will be corrected over the comi...
The Environment Agency has been accused of acting like Big Brother by pressuring hatcheries into enforcing IPPC rules on customers Hatcheries have been receiving letters from the Environment Agency, warning that they could face prosecution unless they ensure that customers who require an IPPC permit have, in fact, obtained one. Steve Carlyle of ...
Fridays have announced a major increase in the price they pay free range producers for the eggs. The packer’s producers have been told that prices are increasing by seven pence for very large, large, medium and small eggs and by 10 pence for seconds and farm seconds. Fridays said that increases would take effect from March 11. Free range ...
Free range egg producers need to see a significant and immediate increase in the price they receive to maintain supplies in the long-term, the NFU said today. Free range producers have struggled for 18 months amid a background of rising costs, low egg prices and oversupply in the free range market. However, since January 1 and the introduction ...
Free range egg producers need to see a significant and immediate increase in the price they receive to maintain supplies in the long-term, the NFU said today. Free range producers have struggled for 18 months amid a background of rising costs, low egg prices and oversupply in the free range market. However, since January 1 and the introduction ...
Minister of State for Agriculture and Food, James Paice MP, has confirmed that eggs being produced in barren battery cages across the EU, and egg products made from them, cannot be exported from their own countries of origin and sold on the UK market. In a letter to the British Egg Industry Council he stated that, under an agreement between the...
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