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DSM Adds New Colour To YolkFan And Launches New Egg Yolk Pigmentation Guidelines

Mar 8, 2016

Netherlands-based global scientific company DSM has launched new Egg Yolk Pigmentation Guidelines to help produce the desired yolk colour and has added a new colour to YolkFan, which is a tool to measure yolk colour. The addition of the ...

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Nestle Commits to Use Only Cage-Free Eggs in Us Products by 2020

Dec 25, 2015

Swiss food company Nestle has committed to use only cage-free eggs for its US food products by 2020. With this decision, the packaged food company has joined companies like Kellogg, McDonalds, Subway and Dunkin' Donuts, who have already ...

Tags: Nestle, cage-free eggs, Food

Happy Egg to Support Humane Farm Practices

Nov 24, 2015

As the first true free-range egg producer to be American Humane Certified, the happy egg has joined American Humane Association in a Congressional Briefing on "The Humane Heartland: A Celebration of the Humane Treatment of Farm Animals." ...

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McDonald's Plans to Use Only Cage-Free Eggs in US and Canada

Sep 10, 2015

US-based McDonald’s plans to stop using eggs from chickens raised in cages in the US and Canada over the ten years. This may leave a major impact on the egg industry given that the restaurant chain annually uses two billion eggs in ...

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Bachoco Will Acquire The Breeding Assets in The State of Georgia of Morris Hatchery

Jul 15, 2015

Mexico-based producer and processor of poultry and other food products Industrias Bachoco will acquire the breeding assets in the State of Georgia of Morris Hatchery, a US company. In 2013, Bachoco acquired the breeding assets in the ...

Tags: food manufacture, animal husbandry, Bachoco

Cal-Maine Foods, Rose Acre Farms Builds Egg Production Complex in Texas

Apr 13, 2015

Mississippi based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. and Rose Acre Farms, Inc. based in Seymour, Indiana have entered into a joint venture called Red River Valley Egg Farm, LLC, to build and operate a shell egg production complex in Texas. To be ...

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EGG Producers Express Concerns About The Impact on Ditching Cage Eggs

Jan 15, 2015

Supermarket dumping of cage eggs could result in egg shortages Egg producers have continued to express concerns about the impact on Australia’s egg industry of moves by supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, and fast food chain ...

Tags: Cage Eggs, Supermarket, Agriculture

ACCC Institutes Proceedings in Federal Court Against R.L Adams Pty Ltd

Dec 16, 2014

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has continued its focus on ‘free range’ egg claims, and instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against R.L Adams Pty Ltd, which trades as Darling Downs Fresh Eggs, ...

Tags: egg claims, Agriculture

The European Commission Has Adopted Protective Measures

Nov 21, 2014

The European Commission has adopted protective measures in order to control and prevent the avian influenza from spreading within the affected member states to other states and to third countries while minimising disturbance to trade. ...

Tags: avian influenza, disturbance to trade, Agriculture

Ukraine Has Imposed a Ban on All Live Birds and Bird Product Imports From The UK

Nov 21, 2014

Ukraine has imposed a ban on all live birds and bird product imports from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany over bird flu outbreak. The ban will continue until the international watchdog ensures that these countries are free from bird ...

Tags: bird flu, bird product imports, Agriculture

Cal-Maine Foods Gained Full Control of Delta Egg Farm with The Acquisition of 50% Stake

Mar 5, 2014

Cal-Maine Foods, a US-based egg producer, has gained full control of Delta Egg Farm with the acquisition of remaining 50% stake from Sunbest Foods of Iowa. Delta Egg Farm has now become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cal-Maine Foods. ...

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Cal-Maine Foods Signed a Deal to Take Over 50% Stake in Delta Egg Farm

Feb 19, 2014

Cal-Maine Foods, a US-based egg producer, has signed a deal to take over the remaining 50% stake in Delta Egg Farm from Sunbest Foods of Iowa for $17m. With this development, Delta Egg Farm will become a wholly owned subsidiary of ...

Tags: Cal-Maine Foods, Delta Egg Farm

Iowa's Livestock Sector Continues to Help Support State's Economy by Adding 20,500 Jobs

Dec 27, 2013

Iowa's livestock sector continues to help support the state's economy by adding 20,500 jobs within the past decade, according to the recent United Soybean Board-funded Animal Agriculture Economic Analysis. A successful animal ag industry ...

Tags: Agriculture, Food

ACCC Institutes Proceedings Against Producer's Use of "Free-Range" Was Misleading

Dec 26, 2013

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has filed separate proceedings in the Federal Court against egg producers in Western Australia (WA) and New South Wales (NSW) alleging that each of the producer’s use of ...

Tags: egg, food, free-range

More and More Consumers and Corporations Are Touting The Benefits of "Local" Foods

Nov 11, 2013

More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, "local" as a marketing claim, has ...

Tags: local food, organic food, farming

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