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Poultry industry growth more than chicken feed

Two players dominate the $4 billion chicken industry in Australia and there are bullish growth forecasts.

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Eggsellent 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...

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MP 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.

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Rural Report for North and West and Eyre Peninsula: Friday, April 27, 2012

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Rural Report for North and West and Eyre Peninsula: Wednesday, June 13, 2012

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Rural Report for North and West and Eyre Peninsula: Wednesday, July 4, 2012

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Rural Report for North and West and Eyre Peninsula: Thursday, July 5, 2012

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ACCC rejects free range definition

The consumer watchdog has rejected a proposed definition of free range eggs as being possibly misleading for customers.

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Thirty years of turkey tradition

Previously on the Country Hour we have heard about the turkey farm that processes around 60-thousand birds a year.

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Farmers fed up with free range claims

Free range egg producers have resorted to relabelling their produce because of misleading claims.

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Water 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.

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South Australia to define free-range eggs

Consumer groups think a proposed industry code will make buying free-range eggs less confusing for shoppers.

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Poultry 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.

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Voluntary 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.

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Pastured 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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