The ACGC News is a short information sheet emailed to chicken growers who are members of State Farming Organisations, Processor Grower Goups, and Associate members. It features business information, tracks diseases, provides information on grants and opportunities, and environmental scanning. If you are not a member of the above groups and wish to receive the newsletter, contact the office at meatchicken.farmers@gmail.com. Note that newsletters after 2022 are not posted on the site.
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CHANGES TO NATIONAL ANIMAL WELFARE STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES – TIME FOR ACTION
NATIONAL FEDERAL ANIMAL WELFARE GUIDELINES are the legal guidelines which every grower in Australia has to meet. These Guidelines may be captured in legislation on a state by state basis – most states do, some states modify them slightly. Importantly, the RSPCA, ACMF and other key groups sit on the panel which develops the National […]
read moreRSPCA RISKS ENTIRE MEAT POULTRY INDUSTRY
The RSPCA is choosing to risk the health and safety of the entire meat poultry industry right across Australia with its current Accreditation (and proposed future replacement, Certification) scheme in three ways: 1. The Current Scheme ACGC has discovered that RSPCA is so intent on litter health that farmers are having to rotary hoe their […]
read moreLocal Avian Influenza Outbreak Sparks Review of Biosecurity Agreement
In the wake of the H7 “local” Avian Influenza outbreaks in Vic, NSW and ACT, there has been a rush of bureaucratic survey-taking, and requests for input and opinion, all hoping that meat poultry growers tell government departments how wonderfully they handled the outbreak. Sadly, they are receiving the truth: the good, the bad and […]
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