The Ranger News Stories http://www.theranger.co.uk www.theranger.co.uk News Stories en-gb 12/05/2008 08:17:46 60 Pig and Poultry Fair 2008 http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6447 The 2008 British Pig and Poultry Fair will take place at Stoneleigh Park on 13th-14th May. Expectati... 22/04/2008 How clean is your feed? http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6446 The new raft of zoonosis regulations, and in particular the requirement to carry out environmental t... 22/04/2008 Producers benefit from North Scarle Investments http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6448 Producers supplying Noble Foods are already benefiting from the company's investment in its Nort... 22/04/2008 Beak Trimming - Is it necessary http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6445 Sometimes hens feather peck and cannibalise. We have all seen it happen. Do we know why? Sometime... 26/03/2008 On the wing with organics http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6444 Twenty feet up in the trees is not where you'd normally look for point-of-lay pullets. But that... 26/03/2008 Keeping the bugs at bay – how to protect your birds http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6443 In previous articles in The Ranger, we have discussed the importance of biosecurity in protecting la... 26/03/2008 Too much red tape could prove a disincentive to expansion http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6441 Following confirmation that the EU ban on battery caged production will come into effect as schedule... 27/02/2008 Co-op’s battery ban plugs Free Range Award http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6437 BFREPA's Free Range Awards have received widespread exposure in a high-profile publicity campaig... 27/02/2008 Five pence increase needed now, says BFREPA http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6438 BFREPA is calling for an immediate rise in producer price of five pence a dozen. The call came earli... 27/02/2008 Responsibility and cost sharing http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6440 The huge question of how animal health and welfare should be funded – who should bear the costs of a... 27/02/2008 Vaccination of poultry - All you ever wanted to know http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6442 As in human medicine, in the last 50-60 years, there has been tremendous progress in the development... 27/02/2008 Stonegate sale only weeks away http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=6439 Britain's second biggest egg packer could be in the hands of a new owner in a matter of weeks. ... 27/02/2008 British Pig and Poultry Fair ’08 first to forge supply chain links http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=521 For the first time, the 2008 British Pig and Poultry Fair will encompass all members of the supply c... 19/12/2007 Parasitic Worms http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=526 Copyright: Copyright: www.theranger.co.uk Have you thought about what may be happening within the... 19/12/2007 Jamie's dinners - Fowl but fair? http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=518 Once again, it seems that Channel 4 is out to shock its audience – this time amidst fears that it wi... 19/12/2007 BFREPA answered all the questions for Producer of the Year http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=519 Picture: James with his father Richard at the BFREPA stand at the Pig and Poultry Fair When Tom V... 19/12/2007 Regional Provenance is a Priority for Noble Foods http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=520 As locally sourced and locally farmed food becomes a more important element of customers' choice... 19/12/2007 BFREPA Conference 2008 http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=522 Organisers BOCM PAUL had promised us that the BFREPA 'Simply Different' Annual Conference on... 19/12/2007 What a send-off! http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=523 Through the pages of the Ranger may I thank the BFREPA council along with all members of the Associa... 19/12/2007 New cloned vaccine for Newcastle disease http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=525 A new live vaccine for the control of Newcastle disease has been launched by German vaccine speciali... 19/12/2007 Flock health - using your senses http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=527 Copyright: www.theranger.co.uk Producers are only too well aware that the costs of investigating ... 19/12/2007 Marks and Spencer: Most compassionate supermarket http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=524 M&S scored highest in Compassion in World Farming's Supermarket Survey, beating Waitrose and oth... 19/12/2007 Update on avian influenza outbreak in Suffolk http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=517 Following expert consideration of surveillance and tracing results, Defra has today confirmed the in... 06/12/2007 Producers told to keep birds away from lakes and ponds http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=516 Free range and organic farmers will be required to keep their birds away from lakes, ponds and other... 04/12/2007 £6 million company hatches after egg merger http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=514 TWO of the North West's leading egg suppliers have merged, creating a cracking opportunity for n... 04/12/2007 Official report says bird flu is contained‏ http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=515 Defra has published its epidemiological report into the recent Avian Influenza outbreak at a farm in... 01/12/2007 BEIC says no to egg stamping http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=507 As reported in last month's issue of The Ranger, there has been mounting speculation within the ... 19/10/2007 Should Salmonella Typhimurium vaccination be mandatory? http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=510 As mentioned above, the Lion Code has been amended. This has been done well in advance of the legisl... 19/10/2007 Egg prices: Supermarkets accused of displaying a 'criminal' lack of understanding http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=506 For months, egg producers have been having sleepless nights over feed prices; yet still it seems tha... 19/10/2007 ZOONOSIS – KNOW THE RULES http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=509 The approaching zoonosis legislation has become one of the biggest talking-points in the industry at... 19/10/2007 Avian Influenza Helps Fast Track Planning Permission http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=508 In November 2005, Andrew Watts – Production Director at Fridays received a circular letter from the... 19/10/2007 The British Free Range Egg Producers Conference 2007 http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=505 The BFREPA conference which is held at Stoneleigh Park on the 22nd November 2007 promises to be &#39... 17/10/2007 On farm stamping of eggs - An inevitable fact for UK producers http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=499 AS BFREPA chairman Tom Vesey commented last month on farm stamping of eggs is very much back in the ... 20/09/2007 Summertime problems http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=503 Pale shelled eggs and vitamin D3 In the June issue of the Ranger, I discussed the problem of pale s... 20/09/2007 Feather pecking and cannibalism http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=502 There is nothing more frustrating or demoralising than embarking on a career in free range producti... 20/09/2007 Feed price crisis set to hit producers hard if packers and retailers do not respond http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=501 Free range egg producers throughout the UK have been forced to accept increases in feed prices throu... 20/09/2007 Griffiths first to carry traceability markings on all eggs http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=500 All Oaklands Farm eggs to be stamped with traceability coding, identifying farm of origin. Oaklan... 20/09/2007 Bean Roaming! http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=489 Last month saw five new members joining the Association adding a further 45,000 layers with flocks v... 15/08/2007 January 2008: no time to compromise on Salmonella Se control http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=488 From 1st January 2008, farmers will be required to regularly test layer farms for salmonella. With ... 15/08/2007 Planning permission takes over two years despite support from local council http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=487 AFTER a two and a half year battle organic free egg producers Nigel and Josie Williams of Kinsale Fa... 15/08/2007 New Welfare standards http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=486 The RSPCA Welfare Standards for Laying Hens are continually being developed as new scientific resear... 15/08/2007 Courage and commitment finally pays off in planning battle http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=490 In the March issue of the Ranger we reported on Dianne Litchfields battle for planning permission to... 15/08/2007 Dutch packer approved by Freedom Foods http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=484 LAST month the Ranger learned that Freedom Food approval had been given to the Dutch free range egg ... 15/08/2007 Amalgamation helps expansion! http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=495 Sunny Hill Free Range Eggs, the largest producer of free range eggs in North East England have annou... 15/08/2007 ABN becomes key Pig and Poultry Fair partner http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=485 Nutrition company, ABN, is to be the principal sponsor of the 2008 British Pig and Poultry Fair, due... 15/08/2007 New Managing Director for Stonegate http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=491 Nick Rogers has left Stonegate. Pam Corbett has taken over as Managing Director.. Michael Kent to... 15/08/2007 Quick action ensures quality results at Barrington Park http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=492 When the opportunity arose in 1999 of setting up an organic poultry unit from scratch at Barrington ... 15/08/2007 Lion recognition prompts egg sale increase http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=494 The 2007 advertising campaign for British Lion eggs has been a double success prompting an unprecede... 15/08/2007 Supporting woodland http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=496 When I started Free Range egg production in 1994, I planted lines of poplar trees partly to screen t... 15/08/2007 Are my eggs too big? http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=497 This is a very common problem on free range farms. Eggs are allowed to get too big. Ah, but I hear... 15/08/2007 Salmonella - A disease of complacency http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=498 Regular readers of The Ranger might be excused for having a feeling of déjà vu in reading yet anothe... 15/08/2007 Feed Crisis http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=493 As producers are only too well aware, we have a feed crisis on our hands. I know that the word crisi... 15/08/2007 Salmonella egg ban from the autumn http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=481 Eggs from flocks infected with salmonella will be banned from retail sale from November if they are ... 26/06/2007 Egg stampers put through their paces http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=480 As the egg industry considers whether to go down the route of on-farm marking of eggs, stamping equi... 26/06/2007 ASDA turns around sales slump http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=483 New style packaging along with extra shelf space and a redesigned fixture have seen supermarket gian... 26/06/2007 Little Chef “sorry” over cage eggs http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=482 Little Chef prides itself on its committed policy of using only free range eggs. It boasts about ... 26/06/2007 Deans rolls-out plastic trays (again) http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=469 Deans Foods is to push on with its planned introduction of plastic egg trays. The conversion to p... 18/05/2007 Yorkshire farmers break from packer http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=467 A group of free range producers in Yorkshire are to launch a new egg marketing company to deal direc... 18/05/2007 Morrisons… all free range by 2010 http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=466 Morrisons has become the second of the ‘big four’ supermarket chains to announce the phasing out of ... 18/05/2007 On-farm stamping back on the agenda http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=465 Less than four years after overturning an EU proposal that would have forced producers to stamp eggs... 18/05/2007 Prices up but organic gloom grows http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=464 Organic price rises have done nothing to lift the gloom that now hangs over the future of the sector... 18/05/2007 Feeding for Organic egg production http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=438 With feed constituting a major component of any animal production system and in the case of egg prod... 10/05/2007 Infectious bronchitis http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=392 Today, as ever, if you ask any producer to name the most significant cause of egg production problem... 05/05/2007 Pasteurellosis (or Fowl Cholera) http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=399 Pasteurellosis is an infection caused by the bacteria Pasteurella multocida. This is a very severe i... 05/05/2007 Water - Friend and Foe! http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=404 Water is essential for life. That applies to us as much as to our chickens! Providing ample amounts ... 05/05/2007 E coli...a better strike rate than Beckham! http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=391 Escherichia coli (thankfully shortened to E coli!) is an imposing name for an imposing bug! As we ha... 05/05/2007 Coccidiosis – providing immunity in the laying flock http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=414 In this month’s Ranger article we are looking at the options available to provide the pullet with go... 05/05/2007 Infectious Coryza http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=32 Cause The bacterium causing this disease is Hemophilus paragallinarum. Transmission The disease... 04/05/2007 Egg import trucks never checked http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=364 Egg inspectors have no powers to check lorries at ports for loads of illegal, unstamped eggs arrivin... 20/04/2007 Hours spent bird-watching pays off http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=365 It is 20 years since Albert Jansen produced the first ever automatic rollaway nestbox. At the tim... 20/04/2007 Top award for Yorkshire packer http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=366 An innovative marketing idea where consumers can trace locally-produced eggs back to the farm of ori... 20/04/2007 Organic price rise on its way http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=368 Hard-pressed organic producers who have had to absorb unprecedented hikes in feed costs are finally ... 20/04/2007 Stonegate must be sold, says CC http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=369 The Competition Commission has ruled that Noble Foods must sell off Stonegate in order to maintain c... 20/04/2007 Zoonoses legislation… Use eggs for confirmation, says BEIC http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=367 With new salmonella regulations due to be introduced by the EU next year, the UK egg industry is fig... 20/04/2007 The millions who ignore welfare http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=362 Millions of consumers completely ignore animal welfare issues when shopping in the supermarket, says... 21/03/2007 Flocks back ranging after AI shut-in http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=363 Free range flocks caught up in the restrictions surrounding the avian influenza outbreak in Suffolk ... 21/03/2007 Free range birds back outside http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=360 Defra today announced changes to the disease control measures put in place to tackle the H5N1 outbre... 01/03/2007 Clock ticking on ‘indoor’ free range http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=355 Over 100,000 free range layers risk losing their free range status if Defra fails to stamp out the o... 21/02/2007 Third of price increase vanishes http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=358 More than a third of the price increase paid to producers in the past four months has already been w... 21/02/2007 Can new contracts deal save Noble? http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=354 A new approach to producer contracts has emerged as a possible way to save the future of the threate... 21/02/2007 From welder to egg collector http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=357 James Maclean can't wait to swap the relative comfort his farm workshop offers during the winter... 21/02/2007 Minimum shade area to double http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=359 The area of shade required for birds on range is set to double. Freedom Food standards already i... 21/02/2007 Organic feed hits £300 a ton http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=356 Organic feed costs have rocketed to a record high of £300 a ton leaving producers facing a major fin... 21/02/2007 Possible link to Hungarian processing plant http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=353 The Government is developing its investigation into what might have caused the outbreak of avian inf... 09/02/2007 Should I house my free range birds? http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=352 There appears to be conflicting advice as to whether free range flocks should currently be housed. T... 08/02/2007 Oral statement by David Miliband on the avian influenza situation in Suffolk http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=351 Mr Speaker, with your permission I would like to make a statement about the avian influenza outbreak... 05/02/2007 Trade restrictions due to Avian Influenza http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=350 UK's Avian Influenza Status Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been confirmed in domestic po... 04/02/2007 H5N1 avian influenza confirmed in poultry http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=347 Tests from the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) have confirmed that the sample from the poultry ... 03/02/2007 H5N1 in poultry in Suffolk confirmed as Asian strain of avian influenza http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=348 This afternoon the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) confirmed that the H5N1 avian influenza iden... 03/02/2007 Additional restrictions imposed following confirmation of Highly Pathogenic H5N1 http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=349 Following confirmation of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza Defra has announced that further re... 03/02/2007 Avian influenza test result on poultry http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=346 The State Veterinary Service has today been investigating a case of suspected avian notifiable disea... 02/02/2007 Retailers still stocking imported eggs http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=344 Two months after they first appeared on the shelves of British supermarkets, foreign free range eggs... 23/01/2007 Organic shutdown “only weeks away” http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=343 Organic producers could face losing their certification status within eight weeks unless action is t... 23/01/2007 Government flu jab offer… at last http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=342 Sixty thousand people working in close contact with poultry are to be offered a free flu jab, the De... 23/01/2007 Bid to end 12 week shut-in rule http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=341 A bid to change the AI twelve week shut-in rule for free range flocks appears to have failed, at lea... 23/01/2007 Demand forces up producer price http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=345 Competition for supplies of free range eggs has led some packers to offer prices at a level not seen... 23/01/2007 Big merger to be sent packing? http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=339 The big egg industry merger is set to be blocked by the Competition Commission. The CC inquiry t... 23/01/2007 ‘On-off’ lighting extinguishes mite http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=340 Scientists from Bristol University are looking for a hen house with a red mite problem so that they ... 23/01/2007 Research shows benefit of infra-red http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=335 Infra-red beak treatment can offer potential improvements over conventional trimming methods, say sc... 22/12/2006 Major organic feed crisis looms http://www.theranger.co.uk?show=newsArticle&id=338 The organic egg sector is under threat from a major crisis in the supply of feed ingredients. Pro... 22/12/2006