In Poultry World April issue

This month’s Poultry World focuses on free-range meat production, featuring three businesses in the sector, plus market analysis.

We visit half-brothers Tim Bailey and Charlie Woodford, who rear and finish extra large free-range chicken for Waitrose, and profile West Country Free Range Farmers, a co-op over 20-years-old representing almost 50 producers. They say it provides strength in numbers and lets them share knowledge.

We also look at how, for one farm, online marketing and adding value is boosting seasonal goose and turkey sales.

Our technical topics this month include effective broiler brooding, and gives the lowdown on enzymes. We also get the latest Follow the Flock update: how the free-range layers are doing on our adopted farm.

The big story of last month was undoubtedly the 2 Sisters buyout of Vion’s poultry processing plants, followed by a 2 Sisters-related company snapping up Vion’s agricultural interests. April’s issue contains a full analysis.

We also cover the latest on global trade, reports of illegal egg in Europe, and industry disappointment that George Osborne didn’t drop the VAT charge on hot rotisserie chicken that’s hampering sales.

Also, DEFRA is quizzed over its interpretation of perches, pork is found in halal chicken sausage, and we provide feedback from the NFU conference and the Scottish Egg Conference.

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