Monthly Archives: February, 2026

Europe demands the world's strictest standards from its poultry farmers, yet opens the door to imports that do not meet them. The EU-Mercosur agreement is being pushed through on a fast track, bypassing the European Parliament. The much-touted "safeguards" appear to have been designed as little more than a reassuring name. Consistency or hypocrisy?

Brussels is intent on applying the EU-Mercosur agreement immediately, without waiting for a European Parliament vote. Meanwhile, a European Commission audit of Brazil reveals serious sanitary deficiencies in exporting slaughterhouses. Democracy or a fait accompli?

Spain has officially regained its status as a country free of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), according to the self-declaration submitted by Spain to the World Organisation for Animal Health.\n\nThe declaration brings to an end a period of more than six months marked by the successive detection of 16 outbreaks of the H5N1 virus on poultry holdings across seven autonomous communities.

Madrid, 20 February 2026 — The broiler poultry sector faces an increasingly complex landscape, shaped by raw material cost volatility, tighter regulation, and the...

nIn modern poultry farming, we have become experts at monitoring the environment. Birds are continuously monitored by sensors measuring ambient temperature, relative humidity, CO2,...

We provide a practical explanation of the 2026 update to the National Salmonella Control Programme for laying hens (PNCS), published by Spain's MAPA, covering the period 2025–2027. \n\nThe objective remains to keep the prevalence of S. Enteritidis and S. Typhimurium below 2% in adult flocks, with a rate of 1.47% having been achieved in 2024. \n\nThe obligations for laying hen producers are detailed one by one.

What if we deliberately selected crops with poultry nutrition in mind? For decades, crop genetic improvement has focused on the needs of farmers and food...

China has become the EU's fifth largest poultry meat supplier, recording 33.6% growth in a single year — roughly 50,000 tonnes. While volumes surge, the EC itself is detecting systematic non-compliance with the required sanitary standards. With the debate focused on Mercosur, who is monitoring what arrives from the other side of the world?

From 1 May 2026, Amsterdam becomes the first capital city in the world where advertising a chicken breast or a burger in a public space is illegal. The city council has decided to place animal protein in the same category as tobacco and fossil fuels. The message to consumers is devastating: eating meat is as harmful as smoking. Is Amsterdam an isolated case, or the first domino in a chain that will spread across the rest of Europe?

Warburg Pincus has just injected up to $1 billion into Global Eggs, valuing the "Egg King's" company at $8 billion. Over 45 million birds, 50 farms and three continents. Since when has the table egg attracted so much interest from Wall Street?