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The recall of over 500 million eggs in the U.S. due to salmonella outbreaks should act as a warning to producers worldwide not to drop their guard, said Klaus Torborg of Lohmann Animal Health.
He continued that there were countries that had successfully tackled salmonella, noting that the UK had the lowest levels of salmonella in laying hens of any major egg-producing country.
In 2004/05, when an EU baseline study was conducted, the prevalence of Salmonella enteriditis and Salmonella tphimurium in UK laying hens was 7.9%. By 2008, the most recent year for which figures are available, this had dropped to 1%.
Torborg added that it was not surprising that the EU had used the UK model for its control program.
Dr. Bruce A. Scherr, chairman of the board and CEO of Informa Economics, will present his Global Macroeconomic Outlook in a webinar on Dec. 9, 2010, at 8 a.m. CST.
Scherr will address critical economic questions for animal agribusiness executives, such as whether the global economic recovery is on track or stalling, the shape of the U.S. recovery, whether or not Asian expansion can lead the world recovery and others. See a full agenda and registration information.
Australian company Baiada Poultry Pty Ltd. was presented with the International Poultry Council (IPC)'s first branded marketing award.
The Federacion Nacional de Avicultores de Colombia (FENAVI), the Colombian Poultry Federation, won the IPC's inaugural generic marketing award.
The winners of the as-yet unnamed awards were chosen during the IPC's annual meeting in Santiago, Chile. Baiada's marketing campaign focused on dispelling myths about hormone usage in commercial chicken, while FENAVI highlighted its campaign to increase Colombia's consumption of chicken.
Bunge North America has opened the Bunge Ingredient Innovation Center (BIIC) for Edible Oils & Carbohydrates.
The center, located in Bradley, Ill., combines Bunge's food ingredient innovation and pilot plant facilities. "As a global leader in edible oils and milling, our customers trust Bunge to be the experts in developing the innovative solutions they'll need to meet future consumer demands," said Bunge North America President and CEO Soren Schroder. "This state-of-the-art facility ensures we can quickly take our ingredient solutions from concept through commercialization."
The BIIC includes a scaled-down edible oil plant capable of creating shortenings, oils and other products; an extrusion pilot plant for snack food and cereal applications testing; and bakery applications, analytical and sensory laboratories to test the nutritional, performance and taste attributes of products.
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) sold out its inaugural Import & Export Seminar, which was held last week.
Nearly 100 representatives from the livestock feed and pet food industries attended the event, which focused on the latest issues, events and other matters relating to the import and export of feed, pet food and ingredients. Jane Doherty from the United States Trade Representatives' office gave the opening presentation on promoting the trade of feed, feed ingredients, pet food and other agricultural products. Other presenters included representatives from AFIA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Foreign Agricultural Service, the USDA's Veterinary Services Program, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's National Center for Import & Export and the Food and Drug Administration.
Aviagen presented its first-ever broiler flock awards at the recent company seminar held in Moscow, Russia.
The company, which has previously recognized parent stock success, added best individual broiler flock, best individual parent stock flock, continuously improved broiler flock and best yearly performance for parent stock flocks to its list of awarded accomplishments. Vasilieveskaya, part of the Cherkizovo group, came away with the best broiler flock award. Nekrasovo won the best parent stock award, OGO Holdings gained the continuous improvement award and Elinar was awarded best yearly parent stock performance.
Corn prices fell after new numbers indicated a larger domestic stock than previously believed, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report.
Prices fell 11% from only a week ago, to a low of $4.54¼ per bushel on Monday before stabilizing at $4.68. According to the USDA, however, lower forecast production (496 million bushels lower) and higher projected domestic disappearance leave ending stocks down sharply from last month, in spite of the revised 2010-2011 beginning stocks (which come to 322 million bushels more than originally estimated). While a 258,000-acre increase in harvest area has been reported, it is offset by a 6.7-bushel-per-acre reduction in yield.
Corn export numbers have been lowered by 100 million bushels with tighter available supplies, higher prices and increased competition from Argentina factoring in. Global supplies, however, are nearly unchanged, as the lower U.S. supplies are being offset by increased foreign coarse grain production.
