Freeranger Eggs in Grantville, Victoria, Australia | Farm

Freeranger Eggs

Locality: Grantville, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 5678 8483

Address: 245A Stanley Rd 3984 Grantville, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.freeranger.com.au

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25.01.2022 Farm Pride and other major egg producers here could benefit from an on-line workshop in the US on how to prevent the transmission of Avian Influenza amongst their intensive facilities. It is being held by the University of Georgia.

25.01.2022 Barn eggs being sold as free range. The key point in this story is that Victoria's chief veterinary officer Graeme Cooke said. "The way modern farming has large numbers of birds in one spot or one shed means that it spreads very quickly." The problem is not free range farms, it is intensive production systems. Brian Ahmed, head of the VFFF Egg Group said To produce the volume of eggs the supermarkets want, there has to be 20, 30, 40,000 birds in a shed. This reinforces the fact that shoppers will never find genuine freerange eggs in major supermarkets.

25.01.2022 The marketing body, Australian Eggs, is preparing a proposal for the Department of Agriculture which will allow it to broaden activities to undertake the industry representation role currently provided by Egg Farmers of Australia. It says the key benefit of Australian Eggs taking over industry representation would be to provide secure funding for policy development and advocacy through marketing levies on replacement chicks. Egg farmers need to say if they think is a good idea. An electronic poll of levy-paying egg producers will be conducted in early December to gauge opinions.

24.01.2022 Yet another cost for egg farms. Australian Eggs and Egg Farmers of Australia will ask the Governmernt to impose an extra levy of 1.1cents on each chicken bought by egg producers. They say they will write to the Minister on November 18 to activate an Emergency Animal Disease Response levy on laying chickens as a result of avian influenza outbreaks identified in Victoria last July.... As part of the EADR process, the egg industry bodies agreed to contribute to response costs and compensation arising from the incident which are estimated to total $1.95 million Outbreaks of Avian influenza and other poultry diseases are almost invariably a result of high stocking densities and inadequate biosecurity practices, so why should genuine freerange farms with small stocking densities be penalised for the failings of corporate producers? Costs should be fully recovered from those business which caused or allowed the outbreaks to spread through the movement of staff, birds or materials.

24.01.2022 Research on fly control in poultry sheds

22.01.2022 Maremmas love to talk.

22.01.2022 Free range farming can help to mitigate the effects of climate change. A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted the importance of sustainable agriculture. Freeranger Eggs at Grantville in Australia is an example of sustainable farming. Freeranger Eggs is doing more than Governments to combat carbon emissions and climate change. The Freeranger Eggs farm management plan takes a three pillars approach to how the farm operates. Animal welfare is ...one pillar, but equally important are land sustainability and food safety. Growth is not a part of our philosophy. we need to encourage people to set up more farms, not upscale existing farms. We believe that will support more people working the land fairly and will ensure long-term food security. Despite all the political bickering over emissions trading scheme targets, some small businesses have been playing their part in addressing the problem. Freeranger Eggs has been getting on with mitigating the impact of carbon emissions. The farm's carbon footprint is limited by imposing a food miles policy for deliveries, using recycled materials and equipment whenever possible, utilising solar power and mechanical processes and an effective waste reduction program. As a result, the 1200-chicken farm generates only about 60 tonnes of CO2 each year. Details: www.freeranger.,com.au

21.01.2022 Chickens fertilise the ground as they move around the farm and in a good rainfall year we end up with pastured up above our knees. Thankfully the cattle are on hand to mow the paddocks down for us. Farming systems working together, it’s a beautiful thing

20.01.2022 Keeping people and potentially contaminated equipment off a farm is an essential part of biosecurity.

20.01.2022 If this doesn't fill the streets with protesters it will demonstrate that Victorians are even more gutless than the rest of Australia.

19.01.2022 Quite a novel thought - a Government actually doing something to help!

19.01.2022 Some farmers in the US are receiving support in these difficult times

19.01.2022 With travel restrictions eased and Melburnians now allowed to travel to regional areas, the restaurants and retail outlets we supply expect a surge in customers which should allow them to stay in business. Demand for eggs may return to normal now the State Goverrnment has relaxed the Covid 19 travel bans.

17.01.2022 Kangaroo Island Free Range Eggs wins a Government grant

16.01.2022 Food traceability becomes more onerous in the US. https://foodpoisoningbulletin.com//fda-proposes-new-rule-/

16.01.2022 Chickens are certainly able to communicate with humans, protection dogs etc and they recognise danger! Many people think that chooks are stupid - but there are far dumber humans! https://www.psychologytoday.com//the-world-according-intel

15.01.2022 this research confirms our knowledge about the value of trees on farm.

12.01.2022 Freeranger Eggs is now listed on the regenfarming news website:https://regenfarming.news/directory/Freeranger-eggs

11.01.2022 A cashless society is a con by politicians to grab more control

10.01.2022 Sustainable farming is essential for the planet

10.01.2022 There are a few family free range egg businesses in Australia and New zealand.

08.01.2022 Destruction is all about us, thanks to greed and incompetence.

08.01.2022 thankfully this is rare. We've found a couple like this over the years - which is a reason for eggs to be candled and graded.

08.01.2022 This year, World Egg Day is on Friday October 9 and Australian Eggs has recruited celebrity Chef Adam liaw to help promote its advertising campaigns. He has prepared a dozen egg recipes from around the world.

08.01.2022 A group of poultry farmers in the French department of Sarthe have got together to focus on streamlining the delivery of eggs to consumers, while highlighting animal welfare. The word ‘Liberté’ is printed on egg cartons and poultrymeat packaging. Several quality labels are designed to persuade consumers to spend more money on animal-friendly eggs and meat. Dutch company Moba installed brand new robots at its egg packing station in the village of La Bazoge. The robots have doubled capacity. Instead of handling one farm’s eggs, the packing station now handles all eggs produced in the area at a rate of 80,000 per hour Most major brands in this country use similar equipment in their packing stations and they often gathger eggs from all over thew country.

07.01.2022 If you can't produce your own eggs - get them from a genuine freerange farm (not a stupidmarket) #OCN

07.01.2022 Unfortunately not all stallholders at VFMA mrkets meet the requirements. Many buy produce from wherever.

04.01.2022 Regenerative agriculture is starting to gain some recognition

03.01.2022 One farm to produce 60 million 'free range' eggs a year.https://www.farminguk.com//egg-producer-looks-to-build-8m-

03.01.2022 Today is National Agriculture Day. https://www.agday.org.au/farm-facts

02.01.2022 The things dogs do.

02.01.2022 I was recently interviewed about the farm on a podcast. Please check it here https://www.sustainableyoupod.com/

01.01.2022 The poultry industry is having a big impact in Bangladesh