Jackie Linden

While just 3 outbreaks of the disease have been confirmed in Sri Lanka, the repercussions of recently emerged African swine fever (ASF) are putting huge pressure on farming livelihoods.

Compared with the same month of 2023, Brazil reports significant increases last month in both volume and revenue of its chicken exports to almost all destinations.

After several years of clear decline, the latest estimates of national feed output point to a marginal dip in volume for 2023-24 compared with the previous 12 months.

By the end of November, Brazil had exported more pork products than during the whole of last year.

Meanwhile, in Asia, South Korea has reported a new farm outbreak of African swine fever, while further cases have been recorded in India, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Publication of the latest guidelines for the human population of Finland caused controversy when they included chicken in the recommended maximum meat intake for reasons of environmental impact.

Based in northern England, the family-owned feed company has announced that building is complete of its latest feed mill.

Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey all report new instances of highly pathogenic avian influenza.

While France has declared the avian influenza situation “resolved,” the first cases have been confirmed in Croatia.

Meanwhile, a handful of new outbreaks in domestic pigs have been reported in Europe, Asia, and Africa.