The China Chain Store and Franchise Operation (CCFA) set the country’s standard for the production, distribution, and sale of cage-free eggs in late October of this year.

How will the poultry industry utilize robots in an area that can be unpredictable and unstructured, like the front end of a plant?

Compassion in World Farming released its updated 2021 EggTrack Report on November 17.

During the 2021 Poultry Tech Summit Webinar Series, Olga Pawluczyk showed how the use of hyperspectral imaging in poultry processing could help more accurately identify food quality issues and detect foreign objects.

To provide therapeutics for use in poultry that are not antibiotics, Amphoraxe, a Vancouver-based biotechnology R&D company, is evaluating the use of naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides.

A new tactic that uses rotational kinematics could lead to a more effective in-line immersive poultry chilling process. Dr. Comas Haynes, principal research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, presented the system during the 2021 Poultry Tech Summit Webinar Series on November 11.

Colin Usher presented a robotic technology to reduce labor and potential contamination opportunities in broiler breeder and cage-free table egg layer houses.

On November 9, Russell Diez-Canseco, President and CEO of Vital Farms, gave insight on the company during the recent earnings review of its third quarter 2021 financial results that ended on September 26.

Ventilation and management are key to providing birds with a living space that they can thrive in.

During the 2021 Poultry Tech Summit Webinar Series that began on November 2, Dr. Pedro Gomez, CEO, Orbem GmbH explained how his company is using a MRI powered system to help identify which eggs are fertile.

During the 2021 Poultry Tech Summit Webinar Series that began on November 2, Dr. Yuval Cinnamon, Ph.D., principal investigator, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center- NRS Poultry Sustainability and Transformation, presented a genetic solution to egg producers that manipulates the chicken genome.

Following the sustainability movement, Herbruck’s Green Meadow Organics farm held a grand-opening event concerning its new eight-acre solar array.