Mark Clements

London

Editor at WATTPoultry.com

Editor at Poultry International

Articles

Top 10 Poultry Podcasts Shaping Industry Trends

1 week ago | wattagnet.com | Mark Clements

In April 2024, WATT Global Media launched the Future of Poultry Podcast. The podcast has gone from strength to strength, with listener numbers continually trending upwards. Below are the most popular podcasts ranked by number of listeners. Mark Clements talks to Pablo Cifuentes, chief technology officer with PhageLab, about how phage use in the poultry industry is set to increase.
Brazilian Egg Market: Growth Forecast for 2025

1 week ago | wattagnet.com | Mark Clements

The outlook for the Brazilian egg market in 2025 is broadly positive but producers could face challenges, reports local research body the Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics (CEPEA).
Resource Agribusiness opens new processing plant

3 weeks ago | wattagnet.com | Mark Clements

Resource Agribusiness Group, Russiaâ€™s largest broiler meat producer, has brought its first further processing plant into operation in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol, in the southeast of the country. Named the Avgust Meat Deep Processing Plant, the facility is the companyâ€™s first production facility specializing in semi-finished products.
Microbiome Breakthrough: Transforming Poultry Egg Health

3 weeks ago | wattagnet.com | Mark Clements

Mark Clements, Editor-in Chief, Poultry: Hello, and welcome to the Future of Poultry Podcast. I'm Mark Clements, Editor-in-Chief Poultry with WATT Global Media, and today we're going to discuss regulating the microbiome of newly hatched chicks. To do that, we're going to look at the work of a small U.S. company, AGRITX.
UK Duck Sales Soar: 27% Growth in 12 Months

1 month ago | wattagnet.com | Mark Clements

Duck sales in the U.K rose by 27% over the 52 weeks from January 2024 to February 2025, buoyed by marketing campaign from Gressingham Foods, the only major supplier of duck in the country. The campaign resulted in sales of Gressinghamâ€™s own brand duck increasing by 15%, whilst also driving more interest to the retailer poultry sections as a whole, the company notes quoting Kantar research.
An agnostic study of donor and component factors associated with transfusion‐related changes in laboratory markers

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Lucas D Ekström |Mark Clements |Nareg Roubinian |Jingcheng Zhao

CO-Hb Carboxyhemoglobin CPD Citrate Phosphate Dextrose (preservation system) FDR False Discovery Rate IQR Interquartile Range MCH Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin MCHC Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration MCV Mean Corpuscular Volume NHLBI National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute RBC Red Blood Cell REDS-III Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study III SAGM Saline-Adenine-Glucose-Mannitol (additive solution) SCANDAT3-S Scandinavian Donations and Transfusions database (version 3)...
KFC to expand in Brazil after new joint venture

1 month ago | wattagnet.com | Mark Clements

A greater focus and new resources should bring the KFC experience to ever more Brazilians at large scale, following the formation of a new joint venture, current owner of the master franchise owner in Brazil, IMC has said, announcing a change to how the business will be run in the country. IMC, with operations primarily in Brazil and the U.S., owns a number of restaurant franchises, including Yum! Brands stablemate Pizza Hut. It currently operates approximately of 200 KFC outlets in Brazil.
JBS announces investments in Vietnam

1 month ago | wattagnet.com | Mark Clements

Brazilian meat company and world's largest poultry prouducer JBS is to make a US$100 million investment in two factories in Vietnam, expanding its position in Southeast Asia and global markets. The plants will be responsible for processing beef, pork and poultry and will primarily use raw materials imported from Brazil to the supply Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries.
Avian influenza H5N1 reported for first time in sheep

1 month ago | feedstrategy.com | Mark Clements

Avian influenza (AI) H5N1 has been confirmed in a sheep in the U.K. The countryâ€™s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) announced the discovery following repeat milk testing. The case was identified following routine surveillance of co-located livestock in a premises where avian had been confirmed in captive birds.
Avian influenza H5N1 reported for first time in sheep

1 month ago | wattagnet.com | Mark Clements

Avian influenza (AI) H5N1 has been confirmed in a sheep in the U.K. The countryâ€™s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) announced the discovery following repeat milk testing. The case was identified following routine surveillance of co-located livestock in a premises where avian had been confirmed in captive birds.