Poultry

Farms are being urged not to overlook the effect of rising temperatures on livestock and to take precautionary measures against heat stress after the Met Office issued its first ever extreme heat warning.

The fire was believed to have be started by an ’accidental ignition’

With the industry spotlight firmly on net zero aspirations, conversation in the final session of this year’s online pig and poultry forums turned to the poultry sectors’ greatest contributor to emissions - feed.

The origin of feed is becoming a key issue for livestock producers, but care is needed transitioning to sustainable protein sources.

Younger consumers in particular were buying more eggs

Recent research has concluded that feeding mealworms a diet of wheat bran combined with the enzyme phytase significantly increases their mineral composition. Hannah Noble reports.

A broiler poultry enterprise is an ideal fit for the Hodgson family’s Cumbrian arable and farm contracting business.

Birmingham based Amber Real Estate Investment (Amber REI) has formally started a planning process which, if successful, could deliver new poultry processing facilities at Coupar Angus, already the largest and only plant of

Poultry sector chiefs have defended the high health and welfare standards on British farms after activist and TV presenter Chris Packham launched a petition calling on retailers to ’stop selling suffering’.

The Countryside Alliance has hit out at a Tesco plan to boost fake meat sales by 300 per cent over the next four years.