Terrence O'KeefeTerrence O'Keefe is content director at WATT Global Media. www.wattglobalmedia.com/contact-usFrom the Author - Page 26Egg ProductionVending machine offers a unique way to buy eggsCertainly the most unique item that I have seen on the show floor at the 2014 Eurotier in Hanover, Germany, has to be a vending machine for selling raw table eggs in cartons containing a half dozen or more eggs.Antibiotic-Free MeatGerman animal rights activist says food is too cheapSabineHartmann, D.V.M., director of animal friendly product management, Vier Pfoten International (Four paws International)correctly told the audience at EuroTier’s Poultry Forum in Hannover, Germany, thatthe price for food has risen at less than the rate of inflation. She said thatthe relative improvement in the affordability of food has actually been a badthing.Egg ProductionThe Americas dominate rankings of the world’s largest egg companiesData gathered for 2013 by the editors of Poultry International and Industria Avicola on companies that produce table eggs outside the U.S. has now been combined with Egg Industry’s survey data to provide our readers a look at the relative size of egg companies around the globe.Egg Productionthe happy egg co., building a free-range brand one farm at a timeIn 2012, Noble Foods introduced the happy egg co. brand to U.S. consumers marketing eggs from free-range hens produced on farms under contract to the Arkansas Egg Company. Egg Industry recently visited a farm producing eggs for the happy egg co, Tree Line Layers Farm outside of Buffalo, Missouri.Egg ProductionEnriched layer cages don’t fare well in Harper’s articleI was disappointed, but not surprised, that the author of the article titled Cage Wars, in the November issue of Harper’s Magazine, was not impressed with the enriched colony housing.Broilers & TurkeysSuppliers are key partners in innovation team at Trader Joe’sInnovation was the key to turning Trader Joe’s into what Forbes magazine called one of the hottest retailers in the marketplace, according to Doug Rauch, former president of the grocery chain.Egg ProductionVideo shows how Waterkeeper’s litigation hurts the environmentThe recently released video, Collateral damage: A farm family under attack, details the events surrounding the lawsuit instigated by the Waterkeeper Alliance against the Hudsons, a Maryland family that raises broilers, cattle and crops, and their integrator, Perdue Farms.Egg ProductionFlawed petition asks Starbucks to only buy ‘cage-free’ eggsA petition postedby the humane league on the website Change.org calling for Starbucks to sourceonly eggs from cage-free hens shows a lack of understanding of how hens arehoused in the U.S. and in Europe. At first I was just going to laugh thisonline petition off, but then I realized that the millions of people who couldbe persuaded to shell out $5 for a cup of bitter coffee would probably includea fair number of folks who would believe the misstatements in the petition, soI thought some comment was merited.Egg ProductionStretching CAFO regulations exceeds intent of Clean Water ActIn a recent op-ed piece published in the Raleigh News & Observer, Michelle Nowlin, senior lecturing fellow, Duke University law school, makes the argument that the North Carolina Legislature shouldn’t have enacted the Regulatory Reform Act of 2012.Egg ProductionAcceptance of enriched cage standards will require engagementUnfortunately, since UEP set these standard themselves for this voluntary program, it left egg producers open to spurious allegations that the space standard was set to restrict the supply of eggs and increase egg prices. These lawsuits have kept UEP from setting any space requirements for enriched colony housing. Believe it or not, I think keeping egg producers from setting their own density standards may wind up being a good thing.Broilers & TurkeysRose Acre’s lawsuit ground zero for the dust and feathers issueThe U.S. EPA and environmental groups have declined to appeal the Alt case, in which a federal district court judge ruled that feathers and other air emissions from a poultry house do not become a point source discharge when they fall to the ground and mix with rainwater, as EPA had contended.Poultry Nutrition & FormulationMaintaining piglet gut health during weaning spurs growth rateSeparating piglets from the sow and switching them from milk to solid food is a critical stage in the growing cycle of commercial pigs.Previous PagePage 26 of 59Next Page