IEC’s conference highlighted the latest trends of the egg industry
For the second time Monte Carlo proved to be a fantastic conference destination and a big hit with IEC’s members old and new to...
Spatial shifts in global chicken meat production between 1993 and 2013
There are hardly any studies which deal with the role of the less developed and newly industrialised countries in global meat production. In this article the Author investigates the spatial shifts in chicken meat production.
Visit to Prinzen, specialist in egg-handling systems for hatcheries
Valentijn Crum, Business Development Manager at Prinzen, part of the Vencomatic Group, tells us about the company history and the stunning advances made over...
Emerging Market Countries: dynamics of the egg industry
The development of the egg exports by the EMC
The third and fourth part of the report will analyse the development of egg trade by...
Vostermans Ventilation – specialist in the field of ventilation since 1952
Vostermans Ventilation B.V. develops, manufactures and distributes fans and control equipment for agricultural and industrial applications and is part of the group Vostermans Companies....
Global Poultry Outlook 2026: Growth Continues, with Operational Discipline in Focus
According to Rabobank, the global poultry sector is set to maintain a strong growth trajectory in 2026, with worldwide production and consumption expected to...
Improving customer service and the use of technology to stay competitive in the food...
The need to grow and keep customers is dominating the agenda of consumer and retail executives around the world.
Thirty-three percent of the 526 consumer...
EU Poultry Market Remains Stable Despite Trade Volatility and High Prices
The EU poultry sector maintained moderate growth through mid-2025, according to the latest Poultry Market Situation report released by the European Commission. Despite continued...
AGRIVOL chooses Breedaza
AGRIVOL, a fifty-year-old company specializing in poultry breeding, have several turkey and breeder farms in Bergamo, Brescia and Cremona provinces and choosed Breedaza in...
Worry-free hatcheries now and in the future
Interview with Mr. Victor Chaux, Marketing Specialist at Jamesway Chick Master Incubator Inc.
Jamesway began designing and manufacturing incubation systems and hatchery equipment in 1890....
Roxell celebrates 50th anniversary
Roxell celebrating 50 years of activity this year. Quality, Service and Innovative products make the company ready for the future.
Optimum solutions for increasing hatchery efficiency
ZOOTECNICA INTERNATIONAL interviewed Mr Rudy Verhelst, Product Manager at Petersime N.V., - the world leading supplier of incubators, hatchery equipment, project services and turnkey hatcheries -, speaking about the Belgian company, its latest improvements and optimum solutions for increasing hatchery efficiency.
Sharan panta: making an impact is the meaning of business
Interview with Mr. Sharan Panta, a pioneer of modern poultry farming in Nepal and founder of Uttam Poultry Farm. His enterprise leads the national...
Denmark’s egg industry – Analysis of an unusual structure
With only 4.7 million laying hens, which corresponds to around 1.2% of the EU flock, Denmark is one of the smaller egg-producing countries. It...
A projection of egg production until 2030
Food supply for a growing global population is one of the great challenges for the next decades. A particular problem will be to produce...
Patterns of EU poultry meat production and consumption – A 2016 status report
Poultry meat has been the fastest growing agricultural commodity over the past decades. This is mainly a result of the high absolute and relative...
Agritech, 30-years’ experience in silos’ production
Agritech, located in Calvisano, in the Brescia district, Italy, is a company specialized in the design and production of fiberglass silos and specific equipment...
Air around the egg with X-Treck
Vencomatic Group is considered to be the leader of on-farm hatching in traditional broiler houses. This pioneering work ultimately resulted in the X-Treck system....
Poultry growth forecast rises to 3.5%, but oversupply weighs on prices
RaboResearch has raised its 2026 growth forecast for global poultry production to 3.5%. In several markets, output is rising faster than demand, while feed...
The red-white-shift in global meat production
Over the past fifty years, a remarkable change occurred in global meat production. This is true as well for the production volume as for...
The role of the G20 in global meat production and trade. Part 1: meat...
An analysis of regional meat production patterns strikingly highlights the exceptional global and group-level importance of the populous G19 countries. The population and economic...
Trade tensions continue
Reports from South America indicate a robust harvest that will start in just a few weeks. A wild card is the trade tensions between...
Hubbard JA57: serving Label Rouge for 50 years
Over the years the Hubbard JA57 breeder female has become the main breeder female used as the base of the French Label Rouge concept....
Farmers of Kazakhstan are ready to boost poultry farming
According to R.I. Charipov, President of the Union of Poultry Farmers of Kazakhstan, investments and modernization of the farms will provide more poultry and...
Die Eiermacher: how to harmonise evolution, technology and nature
During the visit to the Die Eiermacher ‘s company located in Schlierbach (Austria), Zootecnica International met Mr. Manfred Söllradl, General Director of Die Eiermacher, to hear the history of the company and take a closer look at market trends within Austria.
Dynamics and changing patterns of global egg trade at Country Development Group level –...
Country Development Groups – a new classification
The classification of the 211 countries for which data sets are available is based on several parameters, i.e....
The turkey market
The official launch of Titan — Roxell's XL feed solution for large turkeys — is here. Therefore, it is the perfect moment for Roxell’s...
The Canadian egg industry – A portrait
Canada occupies a unique position among egg-producing countries because, since the 1970s, it has adopted a management system that ensures the supply of high-quality...
Interview with Dinah Nicholson, Global manager of Hatchery Development and Support at Aviagen
Interview with Dinah Nicholson, Global Manager of Hatchery Development and Support at Aviagen, the world's leading poultry breeding company
A new specialised turkey hatchery for Turkmenistan
An interview with Mr. Maksat Ibragimov, Company Coordinator MAKSADA OKGUNLY, a hatchery in Turkemenistan.
What you are constructing is more than a new turkey hatchery in...
Interview to Richard Hutchinson, Aviagen Turkeys Sales and Marketing Director
Richard Hutchinson has over three decades of experience in the Turkey industry and during this time he significantly increased turkey parent stock sales in Europe and Russia.
A European campaign for a successful French poultry label
The European communication campaign launched in autumn 2025 by SYNALAF follows the economic recovery of the sector which began in 2024.
On October 8, 2025,...
Thailand forecasts growth amid intense competition and plant relocations
Since 1970, Thailand’s chicken industry has grown remarkably, evolving from backyard farms into one of the world’s most modern broiler production sectors. Today, Thailand...
LUBING products for washing and sanitizing drinking lines
LUBING has always been attentive to promote systems that have as their objective the hygiene and sanitation of drinkinglines and water used in the...
This year Agrovo Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
Agrovo Founder Michael Langeder summarises his company’s journey:
“To be honest, when I started Agrovo in 1994 I didn’t have a clear picture of...
“Alta Tuscia” new laying hens farm in Italy
MBE Breeding Equipment outfitted a new free-range farm, which has recently been inaugurated in Montefiascone, Italy
A celebration event for the "Alta Tuscia" company, located...
Patterns and dynamics of global egg and poultry meat trade. Part 1 – Egg...
In June 2021, FAO published an update on global trade data for 2019. This makes it possible to present an overview on the patterns...
Japanese poultry sector shows positive dynamics despite massive bird flu outbreaks
The Japanese poultry sector continues to show resilience this year, despite rising production costs and repeated outbreaks of avian influenza.
This winter, Japan faced one...
AZA INTERNATIONAL’s systems: easy, adaptable and durable
Located a few kilometers from Milan, AZA INTERNATIONAL was founded n the late fifties as a factory manufacturing feeding systems for the transport and...
Digitization in the poultry house – and much more
The Smart World of Big Dutchman on display at VIV Europe 2018!
2018 was the year of VIV Europe, one of the world’s largest trade...
Agritech S.r.l., Storage & More
For over 30 years Agritech has been at the service of modern animal husbandry and the national and international poultry farming with a varied...
Ovostella chooses Eurosilos Sirp fiberglass silos
The Ovostella agricultural company of Ghedi (BS) is a historic user of Eurosilos Sirp fiberglass silos. We interviewed the owner, Domenico Varini , to...
The dynamics of global poultry meat trade between 2006 and 2016 at continent and...
In two papers the dynamics of global poultry meat trade will be analysed in detail: in this first article the dynamics at the continental...
In Ovo’s Ella technology
As of January 2022, Lohmann Deutschland will apply In Ovo’s gender typing technology, called Ella, in their Dorum facility to hatch chicks without chick...
Developing a broader choice of slower-growing and colored breed options
With continual market developments and expanding consumer preferences, change is the only constant for the poultry sector. Global poultry breeding company Aviagen® has always...
How social media and online opinions affect consumer attitudes
Social media can be considered a double-edged sword when it comes to communicating about food and agriculture. On one hand, platforms like Facebook, Twitter...
Traditional certified poultry
The French cuisine is well-known and respected for more than two centuries for the way it has embraced the different types of poultry breeds,...
El Niño raises fresh uncertainty for global feed markets
Weather patterns do not usually dominate discussions in the poultry industry. This year may prove different.
With El Niño now established in the equatorial Pacific,...
How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect the livestock industry?
It is difficult to make predictions when trying to assess how the coronavirus (COVID-19) will impact the livestock industry in the foreseeable future.
Clearly, the...
The role of Asia in egg production
Between 1996 and 2016, global egg production increased from 45.1 mill. t to 73.9 mill. t or by 64.0%. Asian countries contributed 19.6 mill....
Interview with Olivier Rochard, Managing Director of Hubbard, on their new Hubbard Efficiency Plus
Hubbard has recently launched a new conventional breeder female, the Hubbard Efficiency Plus, which is the result of the company’s long-term research and development...
EU chicken meat production forecast to reach 13 million tonnes in 2027
The September FAS outlook projects further growth in EU chicken meat production and consumption. Its forecast of lower imports assumes that Brazilian supplies remain...
Patterns and dynamics of the EU poultry industry: a status report – Part 2
Part 2 - Poultry meat production and trade
In two papers, the patterns and dynamics of the EU poultry industry are analysed. The first paper...
The dynamics of global meat production. An analysis of the period from 2000 to...
Global meat production increased by almost 270 million mt1, or 268% between 1970 and 2023. Examining the development by meat type reveals that the...
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