New regulation on egg labeling in Nicaragua

Eggs marketed in Nicaragua must carry a label from the start of 2016 with information indicating the area of the country and farm which it comes from, reports Central American Data.
The measure is based on Resolution No. 14-10 published in the official newspaper, ‘La Gaceta’, according to the Association of Small and Medium Poultry Producers of Nicaragua (Apemepan). The association’s director explained that the regulation aims to tackle egg smuggling while fostering competition between Nicaraguan egg producers.
A 6-digit code given by the Institute for Protection and Animal Health (IPSA) identifies the country and region where the egg came from, according to Felix Rosales, Apemepan president.
A recent report in Central American Data included a forecast of Nicaraguan production at 600 million eggs in 2015.
Minister of Agriculture, Edward Centeno, attributed the growth of the country’s poultry sector to its freedom from avian influenza and quality products.
FAOstat puts hen shell egg production in Nicaragua in 2013 – the most recent year for which figures are published – at 30,701 metric tons. Output had been rising steadily there since 2005, when it stood at a little over 20,000 metric tons.

Your guide to strong egg shells

An egg once held the weight of a 200-pound man. Though small in stature, farm fresh eggs have big power. Their shells provide homes to growing chicks and shield yolks from harmful bacteria. But how can a structure that’s only 0.3 millimeters thick provide so much security? The answer comes down to design.
“Architects through the ages have modeled buildings after the dome of the egg,” says Patrick Biggs, Ph.D., a flock nutritionist for Purina Animal Nutrition. “A dome shape offers strength and protection; any pressure applied to the top of the dome is spread throughout the structure. This simple power makes the egg one of nature’s leading designs.”
Building an egg shell
Similar to the supplies needed to build an architectural dome, hens require specific nutrients to produce eggs with strong shells. Calcium and vitamin D₃ are two of the more important nutrients needed to build strong shells.
“Calcium is the most important nutrient for eggshell development, and vitamin D₃ is vital to getting the calcium where it needs to go,” says Biggs. “In fact, each eggshell includes about 2 grams of calcium – that’s 40 percent of the shell.”
Biggs brings this number to the next level with some simple math.
“If the average backyard hen lays 180 to 200 eggs per year, that’s 0.8 to 0.88 pounds of calcium per year for eggshell development,” he says. “This calcium must come from the diet to support shell production.”
Calcium transport
After a hen consumes calcium, the nutrient begins the journey to egg shell production. It first enters the blood stream where it is carried to the shell gland and the rest of the body. To help calcium travel quickly enough to create strong egg shells, vitamin D₃ also plays a large role.
“Vitamin D₃ is necessary, because it increases the rate at which calcium passes through the intestinal lining into the blood stream,” Biggs says. “The birds require large amounts of calcium when the shell gland is active. For this reason, we add vitamin D₃: to get enough calcium to the shell gland when it is needed.”
Providing the building blocks
Hens need to consume around 4 grams of calcium each day in order to get the 2 grams of calcium needed to make one egg shell – not all of the calcium goes to making egg shells. As stated previously, the nutrient – along with Vitamin D₃ – must come from the hen’s feed.
“Be sure to provide hens a complete feed, like Purina^® Layena^® Pellets or Crumbles,” Biggs says. “This complete feed is formulated to provide the necessary four grams of calcium. On the other hand, the average scratch grains product provides only 0.1 grams of calcium and no vitamin D₃.”
For optimally strong shells and fresh eggs, choose a feed that also includes an oyster shell mix, like Oyster Strong™ System. This new system, now included in Layena^®, provides a consistent supply of calcium through the entire 20-hour shell building process.
“Oyster shell is a good way to provide calcium because of its large particle size,” Biggs says. “Smaller calcium particles break down quickly, but oyster shell particles have a slower transittime. This means the calcium source stays in the hen longer and plays an important role in egg shell formation at night when hens need calcium most.”
To learn more about how to form strong egg shells, visit www.OysterStrong.com or connect with Purina Poultry on Facebook or Pinterest.

Cal-Maine nearly triples net income for second quarter

Cal-Maine Foods reported a net income of $109.2 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016, nearly tripling the income of $36.6 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016. Net income for the first six months of the fiscal year was also up dramatically, going from $64.3 million to $252.3 million.
The periods ended on November 28.
Net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2016 were $546.0 million, a 44.2 percent increase compared with net sales of $378.6 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2015.  For the first six months of fiscal 2016, net sales were $1,155.9 million compared with net sales of $735.6 million for the prior-year period.
The net income per share numbers for the second quarter and year to date periods for fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 reflect the two-for-one stock split for shares of the company’s common stock and Class A common stock, effective October 31, 2014.
Dolph Baker, chairman, president and CEO of Cal-Maine Foods, stated, “Our financial and operating results for the second quarter of fiscal 2016 reflect another very strong performance for Cal-Maine Foods. For the second quarter, overall sales were up 44.2 percent over the same period last year, and were up 57.1 percent through the first half of this fiscal year. This impressive growth is primarily due to higher average selling prices and a modest increase in volumes compared with the same periods a year ago. While egg prices were still at much higher than normal levels at the beginning of our second quarter, they dropped considerably in October before moving back up due to higher demand related to the Thanksgiving holiday. Even with this volatile behavior during the second quarter, our average selling prices for shell eggs were up 42.9 percent compared with the same period a year ago, however, they were down 12.2 percent on a sequential basis compared with the first quarter of fiscal 2016. Egg prices have declined since the end of the second quarter.
“Our industry continues to deal with the significant reduction in the national laying hen flock that occurred this past spring related to the avian influenza (AI) outbreaks in the upper Midwestern United States. While the supply is gradually starting to move back up, the current national laying hen flock reported by the USDA yesterday is still approximately nine percent lower than it was a year ago. Egg prices have moved lower than expected in spite of the reduced supply, and we expect prices will remain volatile until the industry has more clarity on future supply levels.”
Baker notes that while there have been no further reported U.S. outbreaks of highly pathogenic AI, the company continues to closely monitor the situation, and is are working with egg industry associations and government officials to identify ways to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks.
To date, there have been no positive tests for AI at any of the Cal-Maine Foods locations; however, the company has strengthened our biosecurity measures at all of its facilities.

Rembrandt Foods to begin restocking farm in January

Egg company Rembrandt Foods expects repopulate its flocks at its farm in Rembrandt, Iowa, in January. The farm of about 5.5 million chickens had to be depopulated earlier in 2015 because highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza was detected at the site.
The company has completed the necessary sanitizing procedures and completed the 21-day waiting period necessary to be given clearance to repopulate.
Rembrandt Foods states it is continually working on increasing its biosecurity measures and has implemented a new 15-point biosecurity plan. The largest measure of the plan, the company stated, has been pouring concrete at its sites for vehicle parking, which will reduce the amount of dust in the air, which has been identified as a potential cause of avian influenza entering the barns.
Since being hit by the avian influenza outbreak, Rembrandt Foods had been actively working with global industry partners to find any available egg supply to help support its customers. According to the company’s website, Rembrandt Foods has currently globally sourced about 62 percent of its lost volume from off-line shell eggs to be broken and processed over the next 18 months. Off-line shell egg breaking has been done at both the company’s facilities in Rembrandt and in Renville, Minnesota.
Rembrandt Foods is the third largest egg producer in the United States, according to the February 2015 Egg Industry Topp Egg Company survey, with 14.5 million hens housed on December 31, 2014.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced on November 6 that the avian influenza-related quarantines on all commercial egg and turkey farms in the state have been lifted, although quarantines remain in place at five sites with backyard flocks.

Post Holdings to purchase Willamette Egg Farms

Post Holdings is expanding its presence in the egg industry as the company is acquiring Willamette Egg Farms.
Post Holdings entered the egg business after it purchased Michael Foods in June 2014. Once the Willamette Egg transaction is completed, Post Holdings intends to combine Willamette Egg with Michael Foods, the sixth largest egg company in the United States.
Willamette Egg is a producer, processor and wholesale distributor of eggs and egg products, with a leading market share position in the Northwest United States. Headquartered in Canby, Oregon, Willamette Egg owns two egg production facilities located in Oregon and Washington and has been operating since 1934. Willamette Egg produces shell eggs, specialty shell eggs (including cage-free and organic eggs) and value-added egg products.
"This transaction nicely complements our portfolio and fits well into Michael Foods," said Rob Vitale, Post's president and CEO. "Willamette Egg will further increase our leadership as the country's largest provider of cage-free egg products and contributes to additional geographic flock diversification."
On a full year basis, Willamette Egg is expected to contribute approximately $80 million to net sales and approximately $15 million of Adjusted EBITDA to Post's results. Willamette Egg, according to the WATTAgNet Top Poultry Companies Database, doubled its cage-free production in 2013.
Post anticipates completing the acquisition early in its first quarter of fiscal 2016. The acquisition is expected to be funded from cash on hand.

IEC Board approves GRSE initiative

Prior to the recent IEC Global Leadership Conference, the Board gave the green light to launch a Global Roundtable for Sustainable Egg (GRSE) Production. This initiative was proposed by IEC Vice Chairman Ben Dellaert after discussions with WWF’s Vice President of Food Sustainability, Carlos Saviani.

This roundtable will follow the example of the Beef Industry: the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), a multi-stakeholder initiative with representation across the value chain in production and consumption.

The goal is to achieve a production that is environmentally sound, socially responsible and economically viable, achieved by continuous improvement in sustainability, through leadership, science, multi-stakeholder engagement and collaboration.

The concept is to develop principles and criteria to define sustainable production. These are used by national or country round tables and then benchmarks these national initiatives.

Possible principles that can be taken into account for the GRSE are:

• Animal health
• Human health
• Environment
• Natural resources
• Animal welfare

IEC will now work to bring together a project working group to start the initial discussions on this project, representatives to consist of scientists, industry, WWF, and also large QSR’s and NGO’s. The first task will be to define relevant and objective criteria.
 

Rembrandt Foods expects to repopulate flock in December

Rembrandt Foods is nearing completion of the disinfection process at its egg laying operation in Rembrandt, Iowa, with plans to begin repopulating the flocks there in December.
The company had to euthanize an estimated 5.5 million chickens after highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza had been detected there in the spring. The farm has since been under quarantine.
“We are expecting to have the quarantine the USDA put us under lifted by the end of October after we pass inspections,” Jonathan Spurway, Rembrandt Foods vice president, told the Dickinson County News. “Once that happens, we will be authorized to repopulate.”
Spurway estimates it will take between 12 and 18 months for the Rembrandt operation to be fully repopulated.
The company has already started to call back workers who were laid off as a result of the outbreak.
Iowa, according to the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) had more birds affected by avian influenza than any other state. Iowa had 75 avian influenza detections with the first occurring on April 19 and the last taking place on June 17. Nearly 32 million birds were affected by avian influenza.
Rembrandt Foods is stepping up its biosecurity efforts to try to prevent another avian influenza infection. USDA officials are anticipating a possible return of avian influenza as cooler weather in the fall approaches.

USDA egg production forecast lowered, price forecast up

The USDA is lowering its forecast for egg production in both 2015 and 2016. The agency released its most recent projections in its June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, issued on June 10
In the WASDE report, USDA noted that the estimated numbers of eggs to be produced are being lowered in response to the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza that has heavily impacted the U.S. layer flock. The 2016 projections reflect a slower than earlier expected speed at which the U.S. flock can be rebuilt.
The agency, in its June report, forecast that in 2015, 7,994 million dozen eggs will be produced, a drop  from the estimates released in May, which called for 8,323 million dozen eggs.
U.S. egg production in 2016 in the June WASDE report called for 8,141 million dozen eggs to be produced, down from the 8,525 million dozen forecast made in the May WASDE report.
The revised estimates for 2015 and 2016 are both down from the 8,335 million dozen eggs produced in the U.S. in 2014.


Egg price estimates for 2015, 2016 raised
The lower estimates for egg production have prompted the USDA to change its estimates for egg prices in 2015 and 2016.
The price forecast for 2015 has been raised to $1.60 to $1.66 per dozen, up $0.30 from the May WASDE estimates.
Prices should moderate in 2016, although the price forecast has been raised from estimates released in May. The new projections call for the average price of eggs in 2016 to be $1.36 to $1.47 per dozen, an increase of 8 cents.
The average price of a dozen eggs in 2014 was $1.42, according to the USDA.

North Central Equity completes sale of Perham Egg

North Central Equity LLC, a Minneapolis based holding company, announced on January 5 it has concluded the sale of its egg breaking business in Fort Recovery, Ohio. North Central, formerly the controlling shareholder of Perham Egg Ohio LLC, sold its Ohio egg processing business to Cooper Farms and Weaver Brothers, which will jointly own and operate the facility under the new name CW Egg Products LLC.
Weaver Brothers is a producer and processor of shell eggs, while Cooper Farms produces turkeys, hogs and chicken eggs. Gary Cooper, chief operating officer of Cooper Farms, said in December the company wanted to diversify its egg operations, and the Perham Egg facility provided a great opportunity to do so.
The modern plant has only been in operation since July 2014.
“Capitalizing on our deep experience in the egg industry, we built a new state of the art egg processing plant in Ohio in a very short time, adding many jobs to the local economy in the process,” said Elam Baer, the CEO of North Central.
North Central Equity remaining in egg business with Minnesota operation
“We remain enthusiastic about the food processing sector generally and want to pursue additional opportunities in this area,” continued Baer. North Central continues to own another egg breaking business in northern Minnesota, through its subsidiary Perham Egg LLC.
The Minnesota operation has been producing liquid egg for over two decades and has a strong industry reputation as a high quality supplier of liquid egg to some of the largest egg processors in the country.

Rose Acre Farms building egg complex in Texas

Rose Acre Farms has broken ground on the construction of an egg production complex in Red River County, Texas, according to one county commissioner. The complex will include 14 layer houses.
Red River County Precinct 1 Commissioner Donnie Gentry told fellow commissioners at an October 14 meeting that Rode Acre Farms had started construction during the first week of October, reported The Clarksville Times.
Red River County Judge Morris Harville said bringing Rose Acre Farms to the county had been a five-year effort. He said the company would bring jobs, people, increase the tax base and bring growth to the county. Rose Acre Farms owns 400 acres of land in the Red River County.
The expansion project will help the second-largest egg producer in the United States to grow. According to the WATT Global Media Top Companies Database, Rose Acre Farms specializes in table eggs and egg products, and has about 24.6 million laying hens.
The company began in the 1930s as a family-owned business, when it built and operated two hen houses and sold the eggs to local produce markets, gradually expanding to commercial grocery sales. Presently, Rose Acre Farms owns 17 facilities in six states throughout the Midwest and Southeastern United States, according to the company’s website.

Imperovo Foods gets approval to export egg products to EU

Avangardco Investments Public Limited, the largest producer of shell eggs and egg products in Ukraine and No. 1 producer in Eurasia, has announced that its Imperovo Foods egg processing plant has received approval to export egg products to the European Union (EU), effective immediately.
The Imperovo Foods egg processing plant is one of the most technologically advanced facilities for production of dry egg products in Europe. Currently, it produces more than 12 types of dry egg products, including egg albumen powder high whip, egg albumen powder high gel, whole egg powder and egg yolk powder which are used in the food processing industry.
Iryna Marchenko, chief executive officer of Avangardco IPL, commented: “The EU license to export egg products provides Avangardco IPL with the opportunity to enter new European export markets in line with our strategy to expand sales into global markets. We expect that the first shipment of dry egg products will be made this October.”
Avangardco, a vertically integrated company with facilities located in 14 regions of Ukraine and Crimea. In addition to its Imperovo Foods facility, Avangardco has 19 farms for laying hens, three second-order breeder farms, ten farms for rearing young laying hens, six feed mills and three long-term storage facilities.

Rembrandt Foods opens new corporate office

Rembrandt Foods, a company that focuses on producing egg products for the foodservice and ingredients industries, has opened a new corporate office at the Great Lakes Mall in Spirit Lake, Iowa. The company had been headquartered in nearby Okoboji for the past six years.
The company is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new facility on September 19. The ceremony will include an egg breakfast. The public is invited.
“The opening of this office marks the next stage of growth for the company,” Rembrandt Foods Chief Financial Officer Jeff Peterson told the Dickinson County News. “We will be providing a larger quantity of egg volume over the next couple of years, both to the domestic and international markets.”
Peterson added that the company decided to retain its corporate office in the same geographical region in Iowa because of the strong work ethic its people possess.
Founded in 2000 by CEO Dave Rettig, Rembrandt Foods employs about 800 people, with about 65 of them working in the corporate office. In addition to having operations in Iowa, Rembrandt Foods has a presence in Minnesota, Missouri and Alabama.
Rembrandt Foods’ operation includes an estimated 13.56 million laying hens, according to the
WATT Global Media Top Companies Database

Southwest Specialty Eggs acquires Eggland’s Best franchise

Southwest Specialty Eggs LLC, Cal-Maine Foods’ joint venture with Hickman’s Egg Ranch Inc., has acquired the Eggland’s Best Inc., franchise for the Southern California markets, which also includes Clark County and Las Vegas, Nevada. As a result of this transaction, Southwest Specialty Eggs LLC, will have licensing agreements for the sale of Eggland’s Best and Land O’ Lakes branded specialty eggs, as well as 4Grain, Farmhouse Eggs and other premium brands in this market region. Sales of Eggland’s Best specialty eggs accounted for approximately 14.4 percent of Cal-Maine’s total shell egg sales in fiscal 2014.
Commenting on the announcement, Dolph Baker, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Cal-Maine Foods, stated, “We are excited about the opportunity for Southwest Specialty Eggs to market Eggland’s Best, Land O’Lakes, 4 Grain and Farmhouse Eggs branded and other specialty eggs in Southern California and Nevada. As consumer demand for specialty eggs has continued to grow, we have focused our growth strategy on expanding our market reach for sales of specialty eggs. We offer a variety of healthy choices for our customers and we look forward to participating in Southwest Specialty Eggs LLC’s marketing and distribution of these popular and well-respected brands in Southern California and Nevada.”

Perham Egg opens egg breaking facility in Ohio

Liquid egg producer Perham Egg has opened a new state-of-the-art egg breaking facility in Fort Recovery, Ohio. The company expects to process about 1 million eggs per day at the new plant with its current equipment.
With the new facility, the company plans to expand its capacity with the goal of breaking 3 million eggs per day within two years. Liquid egg produced at the Ohio facility will be sold to large companies who further process the liquid, which may be converted to powder or further processed to meet the demands of large institutional customers. About $9 million was invested in the new plant.
“This new state-of-the-art egg processing plant significantly expands our egg industry operations,” said Elam Baer, CEO of Perham Egg’s parent company, North Central Equity LLC.
This expansion leverages North Central’s already substantial institutional knowledge of the egg breaking industry. The company owns another plant in northern Minnesota, Perham Egg LLC, which has been producing liquid egg for two decades and has an established industry reputation as a high quality supplier of liquid egg to some of the largest egg processors in the country.
Minneapolis based ExMarq Capital Partners is a co-investor in the Ohio business, and Farnum Street Financial participated in the equipment financing for the project.

Moark’s Midwest egg production assets acquired by Opal Foods

AGR Partners, with help from Rose Acre Farms and Weaver Brothers, has created a new egg company, Opal Foods, through acquisition of some of Moark’s assets.
Opal Foods’ operations initially will consist of 5.6 million laying hens at farms in Missouri and Colorado, as well as a new farm in Neosho. The Neosho farm will eventually be home to 800,000 cage-free hens, which will bring the company’s total hen head count to more than 6 million. Opal Foods reports that many of the purchased farms have recently been renovated to comply with California’s future production standards, and some will be among the most modern in the country.
AGR Partners, Visalia, California, is a private equity investment group with capital provided by institutional pension investors. Rose Acre and Weaver Brothers are minority shareholders of Opal Foods, which is an independent company with its own management team, sales force and board of directors. The acquisition was completed on May 9, 2014, and no financial details were released.
Opal Foods’ will be headquartered in Neosho, Missouri, and the company will retain all of the more than 250 employees of Moark’s Midwestern operations. Opal Foods will be a franchisee of Eggland’s Best and will continue serving the same customers.
Jerry Welch, general manager of Opal Foods said, “Opal Foods is proud to continue to supply customers with the highest quality eggs to help meet the category’s strong and growing demand. Opal Foods’ stewardship will provide its customers and end consumers with a sustainable source of protein and valuable nutrition for years to come.”
Ejnar Knudsen, managing member of AGR Partners and a director of Opal Foods said, “We expect the sales to exceed $200 million per year, and that this investment is consistent with the shift to healthy living trends. There is a continued shift to higher protein consumption and more breakfast and lunch menus including eggs.”

Novogen enters layer market in North Sumatera

Novogen has entered the layer market in North Sumatera through the supply of the first Novogen Brown breeding stock. North Sumatera is the third-largest egg producing province in Indonesia, following East Java and West Java.
“The chicks have been delivered by Novogen’s layer breeding partner in East Java to PT Expravet Nasuba, a subsidiary of Mabar Group, which is the major layer producer in the province,” explained Suryo Suryanta, Nogoven regional sales and technical manager. “This first shipment reflects our strategy to expand our business in the western region of Indonesia. Besides Expravet Nasuba, two other breeding companies in the province have shown their interest to place the Novogen Brown. So far the Novogen Brown has shown very good results in East Java and we strongly believe this will be the same in North Sumatera.”

Working together is key message at egg commission conference

International Egg Commission President Cesar de Anda spoke at the groups Business Conference in Vienna.
The International Egg Commission's Business Conference has been opened by the organization's President Cesar de Anda. Taking place in Vienna, the event's delegates heard about the importance of traceability, food safety and specialist egg products - all important when it comes to the commercialization of eggs, an area to which producers need to give greater focus.
"The world's egg producers should be proud of the IEC. We need to construct our own future, and everyone must play a part in this," said de Anda.
The importance of the consumer was widely discussed. In host country Austria, for example, it was mentioned that animal rights and environmental concerns are important to consumers. Konrad Blas, from the country's Agriculture Ministry, commented that this helped to drive the strategy for quality production.
One of the most striking presentations at the conference's opening event was that given by Professor David Hughes, who looked at the recession and its impact on purchasing.
Hughes noted that consumers worldwide have cut back on spending in shops. Comfort is being sacrificed, while discounts and online purchases are increasing in popularity. He added that, in his home country of the U.K., supermarket chains are turning part of their retail space into cafes, restaurants or bakeries, to occupy space that is no longer needed for groceries. They are also building fewer outlets and those that are being built are small and, overall, their smaller shops are performing better than their larger branches.
"What will this mean for the egg industry?" Hughes asked.
Delegates were also told that the egg industry has not always been as good as it could be in communicating the benefits of eggs - for example, their nutritional value. The example was given of water exported from Fiji and celebrated as the "elixir of life." Something similar should be done for eggs, highlighting that the egg is one of humankind's oldest foods, and working with retailers may be one way to achieve this. 

Noble Foods' seasonal marketing sees uplift in white egg sales

White eggs may be about to make a comeback in the U.K. after a successful trial by Noble Foods.
Noble launched its Snowy White eggs in December 2013 as a limited festive season trial in 96 Tesco stores. The Snowy White eggs sold well, outperforming similar promotional lines. One store sold 440 egg packs in five days. The response to the eggs was so good that the company is considering extending their presence in the market.
Snow Whites are a recent example of the company's development of strong recognizable egg brands. Noble has invested heavily in brand development and its most recognizable brand to date, happy egg free range, has an annualized retail value of GBP75 million (US$123.7 million). 

Dunkin' Donuts and America's Egg Farmers partner to help battle hunger

During the week of March 3-9, sales of Dunkin' Donuts' new Eggs Benedict Breakfast Sandwich helped make a difference in the fight to solve hunger across America. Dunkin' Donuts and America's Egg Farmers partnered to donate one egg to Feeding America for every Eggs Benedict Breakfast Sandwich sold. Egg farmers through the U.S. are supplying the eggs that will be delivered to select local Feeding America member food banks throughout the country.
The American Egg Board (AEB) has partnered with Feeding America since 2009 through its Good Egg Project to provide egg donations to Feeding America and its local food banks to feed the hungry. AEB, through its Foodservice National Accounts program, has been working with Dunkin' Donuts to develop and expand its breakfast menu.
"We are especially proud to partner with Dunkin' Donuts for this particular launch … (and) support Feeding America's efforts to fight hunger in this country," says Joanne C. Ivy, AEB's president and CEO. "This is another successful marketing campaign that effectively uses egg farmers' assessments into AEB to increase the demand for egg and egg products."

Successful Novogen Customers Meeting held before IPPE 2014

Novogen organized its fourth Customers Meeting in Atlanta on January 27, before the International Production and Processing Expo (IPPE). The attendees, coming from 16 countries, concluded that the attendance, interaction and presentations in English and Spanish made it a very successful and interesting one-day meeting for them.
Mickaël Le Helloco, general manager of Novogen, gave an update on the ongoing positive developments of Novogen's presence and product performances around the world. Thierry Burlot, Novogen director of research and development, showed the audience what they can expect for the years to come on egg numbers, egg quality, feed consumption, behavior and Novogen's genomics research showing very promising results after five years of research.
Field results of the Novogen products were shared by PennOVO and Morris Hatchery from the U.S., Verbeek Hatchery from the Netherlands and Tom Barron from the UK. The whole range of "classic" and "light" versions of the Novogen Brown and Novogen White are present in these areas and everyone enjoys the excellent performances the see. Dr. John Kuhl, nutritional expert, from the U.S. gave a review of the feeding strategies of layer pullets and layers under U.S. circumstances.