Venky's is engaged in poultry breeding, egg production, layer and broiler chicks hatching, poultry feed production, animal health products and solvent extraction. Venky's gets quarterly results boost.

We will never see "normal" times again - or at least not for many centuries - and agriculture, our food supply, is in the firing line. Statistics are presented to show that Britain's farming should go the way of its coal-mining, and it probably would have done already if it weren't that farms tend to be owned by influential people. It's all part of the global pattern some scientists have been forecasting for decades, and which many in positions of influence have chosen to ignore, scorn, or...

Brown, who is also new to chicken farming, said he is not new to farming. Fans blow air into the houses at a steady six miles per hour to ensure the chickens have proper ventilation, Brittain said. They ll be fed from automatic feeders. Carolina Classified Marketplace. Dozens of day-old chickens wait to be unloaded at Camp Creek Farm on Friday. Alan Rogers(Record Photographer) NEWTON -- Case Farms expanded its chicken farm in North Carolina by two broiler houses this week and brought the...

LONDON, July 25 (IranMania) - Mycotoxins are considered the leading threat to poultry and livestock industries, deputy Agricultural Jihad Minister for livestock affairs said at the First International Festival on Livestock Feed Industry which ended in Tehran, Iran Daily reported. LONDON, July 25 (IranMania) - Mycotoxins are considered the leading threat to poultry and livestock industries, deputy Agricultural Jihad Minister for livestock affairs said at the First International Festival on...

Main Category: Nutrition / Diet News Article Date: 31 Jul 2007 - 0:00 PDT email to a friend printer friendly view / write opinions rate article newsletters The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and WHO are urging all countries to strengthen their food safety systems and to be far more vigilant with food producers and traders. Main Category: Nutrition / Diet News Article Date: 31 Jul 2007 - 0:00 PDT email to a friend printer friendly view / write opinions rate article newsletters The...

Dairy farms form 56 per cent of full-time farms, with tillage accounting for 8 per cent and drystock 36 per cent. Since subsidies were "decoupled" from production under CAP reform, dairy and tillage were the only types of farming that achieved a net income from the market place. Dependency on off-farm income continues, with 82 per cent supplementing income through farmers and/or their spouses receiving money from employment or social payments. Liam Connolly, head of the National Farm...

But if corn is going to replace gasoline as a fuel source, then something needs to replace corn as a fuel source for our bodies. Food price changes are not as drastic, but they are going up. In 2005, Kraft Foods began a current trend by announcing it was raising prices on several products an average of 3.9 percent because increasing energy costs were making it harder for food suppliers to get goods to market. Because gas prices, which are controlled by foreign governments, have...

Even as the outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in Manipur, the civic authorities in Delhi are yet to initiate steps to check manual cutting and dressing of chickens at local meat shops. According to veterinary doctors, direct contact with an infected animal is the main reason behind the spread of the disease among human beings as against the common perception that bird flu spreads through consuming chicken. Khurana said that though the civic authorities in Delhi make all possible...

Big farms produce a lot of untreated sewage -- large dairy farms generate as much waste as the city of Lansing -- but they also keep food prices lower. Some Democrats and environmentalists want a moratorium on new big livestock farms -- those with sometimes thousands of animals that feed and live in barns. That's the question being raised across the state as Michigan legislators debate how to regulate big livestock farms -- from cows to poultry to pigs -- that generate tons of waste that...