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Elanco has completed a $120 million expansion of its Elwood, Kansas manufacturing site, a move that puts production capacity at the centre of its animal-health innovation strategy. The 25,000-square-foot project was completed on schedule and is designed to increase the site’s capacity by more than four times through new upstream and downstream processing equipment.
Recent Newcastle disease outbreaks in Spain have raised an important question for Europe’s poultry industry: if flocks are vaccinated, why can the virus still circulate?
The first outbreak in Valladolid was confirmed on 15 June 2026 at an unvaccinated broiler farm housing 24,000 birds. The situation then developed into a cluster of 14 outbreaks by 7 July. According to information presented by Spain to the European Commission, seven of the affected farms were vaccinated.
The detection of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in migratory seabirds along the coasts of Western and South Australia in the final days of June 2026 has brought biosecurity back to the top of the country’s animal health agenda.
Meeting the growing global demand for animal protein will require the industry to produce more food while improving safety, nutritional quality and affordability and reducing its environmental impact.
Automation is reshaping poultry hatcheries, with gender sorting emerging as one of the technologies attracting growing industry attention. The shift reflects a broader effort to improve flock consistency, operational planning and the use of labour and resources from the earliest stage of broiler production.
A recent meeting in Utrecht with HIPRA executives placed feather-based gender sorting at the centre of this transition. Sergi Bosch, Digital Health Director at HIPRA, outlined the expanding role of hatchery automation and the development of HatchFlex, the company's new automated sorting system.
Around 25% of broiler chicks worldwide are currently sexed. That share could rise significantly as automated technologies become more accessible and hatcheries gain practical routes to integrating them into existing production flows.
Zoetis completed the acquisition of veterinary teleradiology platform VitalRADS in July, linking specialist imaging interpretation to its expanding diagnostics business.
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