Insights and Stories on Poultry/Eggs

High-path avian flu pops back up in Saskatchewan, Alberta

Sep. 24, 2023 at 6:20 am CDT

Even after 21 months of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases in Canada — including three new cases in domestic birds so far this month — Canada’s “stamping out” policy for the virus remains in effect. Canada’s active caseload of the virus now comes down to just eight of the 325 […]

‘Shocking’ farm videos barred at egg-price antitrust trial in Chicago

Sep. 20, 2023 at 3:34 pm CDT

By Mike Scarcella

Olymel to consolidate Ontario, Quebec further-processing

Sep. 14, 2023 at 3:47 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Canada books first month in 19 without bird flu outbreak

Jul. 1, 2023 at 12:18 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Scientists isolate human gene able to fend off most bird flu viruses

Jun. 28, 2023 at 1:01 pm CDT

By Natalie Grover

U.S. working on limited bird flu vaccination for turkeys

May. 23, 2023 at 7:54 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — The United States is working on a bird flu vaccination scenario focusing on turkeys in the few states that gather the largest number of turkey farms, a move that would best meet a benefit-cost strategy, its chief veterinary officer said on Tuesday. However, no decision to […]

By Sybille De La Hamaide

Animal health body backs bird flu vaccination to avoid pandemic

May. 22, 2023 at 2:57 am CDT

Paris | Reuters — Governments should consider vaccinating poultry against bird flu, which has killed hundreds of millions of birds and infected mammals worldwide, to prevent the virus from turning into a new pandemic, the head of the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) said. The severity of the current […]

By Sybille De La Hamaide

Global chicken meat oversupply improving, Brazil’s BRF says

May. 16, 2023 at 1:10 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Chicken prices are rising as companies start to cut production to reduce global oversupply, Fabio Mariano, CFO of BRF SA, said on Tuesday, after a glut helped to push the Brazilian pork and poultry producer to a first-quarter loss. The firm posted a 1.024 billion-real […]

By Ana Mano

New report shows poultry sector burdened by expectations

May. 12, 2023 at 10:14 am CDT

Updated, May 17 — The Simpson Centre for Food and Agricultural Policy has released a report detailing its findings on challenges now facing Canada’s poultry sector. The report, co-authored by research assistant Shawn Wiskar and centre director Guillaume Lhermie and released Thursday, used a focus group of six stakeholders in […]

By Jonah Grignon

U.S. Supreme Court upholds California’s pig confinement law

May. 11, 2023 at 12:37 pm CDT

Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America’s most-populous state from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces, rejecting an industry challenge claiming that the voter-backed animal welfare measure impermissibly regulates out-of-state farmers. The justices voted 5-4 to uphold a […]

By Andrew Chung Nate Raymond