2017 CPF Winter Board Meeting
The CPF board of directors will meet on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency on L Street in Sacramento. A buffet breakfast will be […]
US egg producers predict not all hens cage free by 2025
The big story in the U.S. egg industry in 2016 was the number of cage-free purchase pledges made by major retail and foodservice shell egg purchasers, and similar pledges by […]
Fresh eggs and – Preparation H – for residents and backyard chickens
The five chickens that live behind Mark Verschell’s stately Takoma Park , Md., Victorian have an enviable existence, for birds. Their accommodations are a heated, trailer-style coop. Their enclosure protects […]
HPAI toll continues to rise in Asia, Germany
Bird culls in the wake of the months-long outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) are continuing as Asian nations report higher cull figures and Germany also posts increasing bird […]
Modesto plant supplies squab, and it’s not your common pigeon
Chinese people launched the Year of the Rooster on Saturday, with help from a Modesto business that deals in a quite another kind of poultry. Squab Producers of California is […]
Chicken farmers say processors treat them like servants
Former chicken farmers in five states have filed a federal lawsuit accusing a handful of giant poultry processing companies that dominate the industry of treating farmers who raise the chickens […]
Bird flu deaths bring live poultry market ban in Hunan province
Live poultry sales are being shut down in China’s central Hunan province because one strain of bird flu has turned deadly for people. Americans are being cautioned about the outbreak, but […]
New GIPSA rule delayed for two months
The effective date for a new Agriculture Department rule that sets standards of proof for market practices in the livestock and poultry industry has been delayed two months until April […]
Safer Salmonella control in poultry feed
Salmonella in feed is one of the key causes of colonization in poultry. Enterobacteriaceae such as Salmonella can be present in the entire feed production process, from the raw materials […]
Did someone say food fight? U.S. farmers – and especially those in California – fret over a possible trade war
It took Donald Trump 71 days to settle on an Agriculture secretary after winning the presidency. It took him 72 hours after that to unsettle much of the agriculture industry. First, the […]