Poultry industry growth more than chicken feed
Two players dominate the $4 billion chicken industry in Australia and there are bullish growth forecasts.
View ArticleEggsellent advice for chooks
If you have chooks in the backyard are they still laying? At this time of the year chickens start moulting their feathers and stop laying. It's all to do the amount of daylight, and chickens apparently...
View ArticleMP pushing for free range eggs change
Proposed legislation in South Australia will try to outlaw selling eggs as free range if they are from a farm which has more than 1,500 hens per hectare.
View ArticleACCC rejects free range definition
The consumer watchdog has rejected a proposed definition of free range eggs as being possibly misleading for customers.
View ArticleThirty years of turkey tradition
Previously on the Country Hour we have heard about the turkey farm that processes around 60-thousand birds a year.
View ArticleFarmers fed up with free range claims
Free range egg producers have resorted to relabelling their produce because of misleading claims.
View ArticleWater pipe tipped to boost poultry industry
The Wakefield Regional Council says the local poultry industry is expanding, in anticipation of a new water pipeline being built in the area.
View ArticleSouth Australia to define free-range eggs
Consumer groups think a proposed industry code will make buying free-range eggs less confusing for shoppers.
View ArticlePoultry farmers gutted by salmonella found in quarantine flock
The Federal Court has given a poultry syndicate until late this week to prove imported chickens should not be destroyed due to a salmonella find.
View ArticleVoluntary code to govern free-range eggs standard
The South Australian Government says an agreed industry code for egg carton labelling will avoid the need to legislate.
View ArticlePastured egg producers angry over coming changes to 'free range' definition
A decision to allow up to 10,000 hens per hectare in free range egg production prompts criticism from smaller producers, who say they are being forced to choose another definition for their type of...
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