Summer weather could encourage more braaiing, supporting prices. Internationally, record levels of animal protein weighs on the poultry and beef markets, whilst demand from China for lamb and pork remains strong.

Stuffed chicken is the ultimate in comfort foods. It evokes images of home and family, of special occasions and chilly nights. Unfortunately, it also brings up memories of overeating and weight gain.

Scientists at a university in the United States have identified a new structure of neurons in the poultry brain that may be the starting point for some stress response signals.

Last week, a federal judge in California denied poultry producer Sanderson Farms’s request to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the company of using false and misleading advertising to market its line of “100% natural” chicken products—a tagline that appears on a range of offerings from wings and drumsticks to thighs and whole birds, as well as on the company’s website, print ads, billboards, and TV commercials.

The late rainfall during the planting window of maize threatens to limit the output of the crop in the 2019/20 marketing year.

WINDHOEK- Namibia yesterday became the first African nation to export beef to People’s Republic of China, when it transported the first 21 tonnes of beef to China the world’s largest consumer market.

Several of my patients, male and female, are dealing with a particular hormone imbalance of estrogen called estrogen dominance.  This means that their body is getting too much estrogen which has caused a whole domino-effect of problems. Too much estrogen in a woman’s body can increase her risk for breast and endometrial cancers, fibroid tumors and ovarian cysts and disrupt normal menstrual cycles.

Having grabbed 30% of the local chicken market, and killed thousands of local jobs, chicken importers are claiming victory and arguing that the assault on local jobs should continue.

The Emerging Black Importers and Exporters South Africa (Ebiesa) has called on government to stop an application launched by the South African Poultry Association (Sapa) to increase import tariffs on chicken to 82%.

The Association of Meat Importers and Exporters (AMIE) has voiced its concern over proposed new chicken import tariffs on meat from SADC and non-EU countries.

The revenue of the fresh chicken cut market in the European Union is estimated at $18B in 2018. This figure reflects the total revenues of producers and importers (excluding logistics costs, retail marketing costs, and retailers' margins, which will be included in the final consumer price).

The revenue of the chicken egg market in Eastern Europe amounted to $9.7B in 2018, surging by 6.6% against the previous year.

China is to begin importing live chickens from the US as feed shortages due to the coronavirus force poultry farms in the world’s second-biggest economy to start culling millions of young birds.

Whenever complex trade issues hit the headlines, conflicting voices attempt to break down dense regulatory and fiscal information into simplified arguments, which is not always helpful in enlightening the average man in the street.

Cheap imports from the EU are not an act of kindness — it is open war against our producers

Heat stress in broilers can be defined as the result of metabolic, hormonal, and immune system changes suffered by the birds when they are unable to dissipate sufficient body heat to the environment due to unsuitable conditions.

Diseases such as avian flu trigger the culling of millions of birds each year. But that need not be the case for much longer.

In 1928, microbiologist Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin was hailed as a scientific breakthrough. In the nearly 100 years since then, scientists have discovered numerous other antibiotics that have saved billions of lives.

The use of antibiotics in food-producing animals has been the focus of a worldwide debate for over 50 years.

Demand for poultry is increasing at very fast rates.