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In-ovo sexing systems rapidly scan eggs and determine the sex of the embryo, to prevent the culling of male layer siblings.

04-12 | Article

Informed consumers favour tech solutions to end male chick culling

Farmer Focus only sells organic chicken that’s certified humane, gluten-free, halal and raised on independent family farms. Photo: Farmer Focus

01-06-2022 | Article

Trends affecting poultry farmers in the US and beyond

Russian supermarkets want to raise the price of poultry meat and eggs as their suppliers calculate higher prices too. Photo: ANP

05-03-2021 | News

Russian poultry market braces for a price hike

WRAP, which has been a driving force in reducing the amount of food waste, made a deal with poultry companies to enable them to sign up to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. Photo: ANP

30-11-2020 | Article

Reducing food waste by half by 2030

The Ukrainian poultry giant MHP plans to add 250 meat stores to the new Myasomarket chain in Kyiv to directly reach out to consumers. Photo: Joris Telders

13-10-2020 | News

Ukraine’s biggest poultry producer to launch 250 meat stores

White striping, which is caused when chickens are grown too quickly, was found in more than 8 out of 10 samples of standard chicken packets in British supermarkets. Photo: Peter Roek

07-09-2020 | News

UK stores criticised for selling white striping meat

Consumers say they want more plant-based foods: in reality, however, fewer than 10% of buyers of each meat protein had purchased plant-based foods in the past 6 months. Photo: Joris Telders

15-07-2020 | Article

Chicken buyers most open to meat alternatives

Most Swiss farms are relatively small scale. Add to that the challenges of mountain farming and a higher cost price needs to be offset in retail. Photo: Henk Riswick

26-03-2020 | Article

Swiss consumer preferences boost domestic poultry production