Council farms have traditionally been used as grazing pastures and to dispose, through irrigation, of partially treated effluent from Firle and Crowborough treatment plants. The council had identified dairy farming, piggery, poultry, stockfeed production, cropping, meat processing, stock breeding and pet food processing as some of the commercial activities that could be embarked upon. Premier Banking Corporation has come in with the loans to finance the expansion of the agricultural...

CHENNAI: Egg is newest commodity on the block to get branded, thanks to Coimbatore-based vertically integrated poultry major Suguna Poultry Farm which is hitherto tapping the unbranded egg market across the country. This apart, the company is also set to launch a range of designer eggs for the beauty conscious and persons affected with diabetes and heart-disease next week. On the designer eggs to be introduced soon, he said scientific method is adopted for nurturing the layer with the...

Top Bands To Recreate Beatles' An expert said that in areas where poultry farms are particularly close together, like Norfolk in the UK, it would be difficult to impose measures in time to stop one farm infecting at least one other, and that two or three others will be affected within a week. Wednesday, 4th April 2007, 08:33 Category:Healthy Living A bird flu outbreak could spread from one farm to dozens of others within weeks unless a mass cull of infected and healthy poultry was carried...

With her mobile phone in hand, a fax machine and a computer nearby, she looks after 30 or so head of registered Brangus cattle, keeps watch over 42,000 chickens and still finds time to rock her 6-month-old grandson, Caden, to sleep for his afternoon nap. The American National CattleWomens Associations primary mission is educating consumers and legislators on the nutritional benefits of beef and the importance of the cattle industry to the nations economy, said Jackie Buehner, press...

It's illegal to feed laying chickens hormones and, except for pasteurized or irradiated eggs, the FDA forbids additives and preservatives. It's a puzzle, considering that Hattermann and his father once ran one of the biggest, most up-to-date egg operations in Colorado county: 84,000 chickens, six sprawling henhouses, 50,000 eggs per day, seven miles of conveyor belts to carry them from cage to packing machine and plenty of cutting-edge machinery. It's a puzzle, considering that Hattermann...

A long-simmering debate in the fast-food industry over the most humane way to kill a chicken heated up yesterday after Burger King said it would give preference to suppliers that use gas chambers to process poultry. Animal-welfare groups predicted that the hamburger chain's decision would put pressure on Louisville-based KFC corp. to discourage the technique used by its suppliers, in which birds are stunned with an electric shock while they hang upside down in shackles. Animal-welfare...