Ashley Smith

Ashley Smith is a freelance writer specialising in lifescience and health and safety.

Pioneiro produtor de ovos do Reino Unido alcança o sucesso sustentado consumidor com a marca de qualidade

Alaistaire e Fiona Brice têm vindo a produzir ovos de galinhas criadas em Birch Farm, em Suffolk, Reino Unido, há 16 anos. "Ovos Havensfield felizes" são bem conhecidos na área local e vêm de uma rede de fornecedores locais, incluindo o irmão Alaistaire de Simon, que foi o tema de nosso artigo "porco do Reino Unido e ovo produtor investe em fogo seguinte futuro."

Free-range hens have been kept at Birch Farm, Suffolk, UK, by Alaistaire and Fiona Brice for 16 years.

Poultry farmers in UK facing conflicting forces

Demands for cheap meat from austere yet welfare-conscious domestic consumers, soaring input costs, falling carcass sizes and depressed imports all make for an interesting time for UK producers. But all is not doom and gloom, according to the National Farmers Union.

While UK production may have remained relatively stable over the last five years, imports and exports have been more volatile.

Malaysian egg market set for continued growth

Around 8.57 billion table eggs were produced in peninsular Malaysia in 2010 (up by 11.8% from 7.6 billion produced in 2009), making it one of the world’s largest producers. The trend is set to continue with 2011 projections coming in around 8.64 billion.

Table egg and day-old pullet production expanded in 2010, and this growth is thought to have continued in 2011.

Dramatic regional variation in Africa’s egg production

African producers accounted for 4% of world egg production in 2008 – a slight fall on their 1990 share. The region is not a major contributor to global trade nor production.

While growth across the regions has been far from even, Africa as a whole has seen a significant increase in total egg production since 1990.

Is the end in sight for avian influenza in the poultry industry?

Avian influenza could be stopped in its tracks by a new technique from researchers at the UK universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. The scientists have successfully developed genetically modified (transgenic) chickens that cannot transmit avian influenza virus to other birds.

Apart the new gene to prevent virus spread, plus a marker gene to help researchers identify modified birds, the transgenic chickens are essentially the same as non-modified ISA browns.

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