Collaboration is essential for advances in poultry technology
Poultry Tech Summit brought together innovators/entrepreneurs, venture capital investors, poultry industry technical experts and established technology companies.
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Terrence O'Keefe
Terrence O'Keefe is editor of Egg Industry and content director at WATT Global Media. To contact O'Keefe, email tokeefe@wattglobal.com.
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German egg farm transitions with the shell egg market
From privatization after the German reunification in 1990 to free-range and cage-free housing today, this shell egg producer has adapted to rapid changes in the retail market.
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Free-range hens: The future egg safety conundrum?
Egg farm Salmonella enteritidis control plans place heavy emphasis on keeping rodents and flies out of the layer house, but what happens when the hens goes out?
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Can egg producers win the food safety race?
Walmart executive says chicken producers are in a race between their companies’ ability to prevent foodborne illnesses and society’s ability to detect them.
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US retail annual shell egg sales surge to $5.2 billion
Increased price accounts for most of the increased value of retail eggs sales, but unit sales of eggs also increased by 1.3 percent.
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Foolish poultry products price-fixing lawsuits continue
These lawsuits, and some of the popular press coverage about them, point out the lack of economics education in the US.
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Good messaging can shift consumer purchase intentions
One of the positive take-homes from recent consumer surveys is that purchase intentions can be swayed on cage-free eggs and slow-growing broilers.
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Cage-free egg production requires 3 to 5 times more labor
A panel with representatives from four major egg producers say that all cage-free housing systems require at least three times more labor to manage than cage housing.
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US cage-free transition means more price volatility
Analyst says increased cost of cage-free production will reduce US egg exports and lead to greater price volatility for producers.
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Innovators: The poultry industry needs your ideas
Innovation has been the cornerstone of the success and growth of the poultry industry. The Poultry Tech Summit will bring innovators and investors together to accelerate technology transfer to the industry.
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