Archived Newsletters

Newsletter Contents

The World Ostrich Association published monthly newsletters monthly until September, 2012, the 10th Anniversary of the Association. Today we have a new website which enables direct publishing of any news that may be of interest to members and non-members interested in the future of the Ostrich Industry.

Past Newsletters

DateIssue numberContentspdf link
October 2002No 11. Welcome
2. Introduction
3. Product Committees		Issue 1 to 20
December 2002No 2
1. Web Site Down
2. Current Membership
3. Newsletter and Mailing List Contributions
4. Chile Conference
5. Markets
6. Standards
February 2003No 31. New Year Greetings
2. Communicating
3. Membership
4. Meat Standards
5. Chile Conference
6. Future Conferences
7. Meat Quality
8. Country Liaisons
March 2003No 41. Chile 2003
2. WOA Members Get Savings on Ostrich Magazine "Ostrich & Around"
3. Meat Standards Committee Report
4. Member Contributions and Participation
5. Chile 2003 Program
May 2003No 51. Back on Line
2. Country Liaison
3. Chile
4. Bulgaria
5. Members Only Pages
6. Changing Email Addresses
July 2003No 61. Moving Forward
2. Principles of the WOA
3. Dissemination of Information
4. Who are your Directors?
5. Slogans
6. Country Liaisons
7. Email Address - Hotmail
October 2003No 71. Which Direction is our industry heading?
2. What do Meat Buyers Look for?
3. What can we learn from other livestock industries?
4. Definition of a Carcass
5. Definition of Meat Yield
6. Bulgaria Conference Cancelled
7. Changing email address
November 2003No 81. What has Happened to the WOA
2. Resignation of Directors
3. New Chairman and Directors
4. New Web Site http://www.world-ostrich.org
5. AGM
6. Change of WOA Contact Email addresses
7. Changing Your Email Address
December 2003No 91. What has Happened to the WOA
2. Resignation of Directors
3. New Chairman and Directors
4. New Web Site http://www.world-ostrich.org
5. AGM
6. Change of WOA Contact Email addresses
7. Changing Your Email Address
January 2004No 101. Happy New Year
2. Country Liaison
3. Understanding Our Market
4. Membership Invitation
5. Quality Standard Marks
6. Minutes AGM
February 2004No 111. Director Resignation
2. Globalisation - Economic Impact of Bad Publicity
3. Industry Comparisons
4. Conference in China
5. Normal vs Usual
March 2004No 121. Breeder Market to Commercial Production
2. Conference in China
3. Roche Nutrafacts and Feed Mixing Accuracy
4. Cutting the Costs of Production
5. New Slaughter Plant in Alberta, Canada
April 2004No 131. Conference in China
2. Chairman's Opening Address
3. Cooperation
4. Research Farm
5. Chairman's Closing Statement
May 2004No 141. Avian Influenza
2. UK Slaughter
3. Developing Contracts
4. Member Activities
5. New Director
6. New Web Pages
June 2004No 151. The Role of the World Ostrich Association
2. The Need for Standards
3. The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC)
4. Member Activities and Requests
4a - The Philippines
4b - Australia
4c - Bulgaria
4d - Ethical Practices
4e - Request for reports
Supplement
July 2004No 161. CL Report from Spain
2. Ostrich Leather, What is the Problem?
3. Selling Chicks in South Africa
4. Email Address
August 2004No 171. The Role of the WOA to Increase Bird Revenue
2. Poor Hatchability in South Africa
3. Increasing Power of the Super Markets
4. Ostrich Products Namibia Diversification
5. Director Elections
6. CL Reports
September 2004No 181. South African Industry Report
2. Value of Slaughter Bird
3. Increasing Revenue Per Slaughter Bird
4. Chick Mortality
October 2004No 191. Avian Influenza Update
2. South African Press Reports
3. Advice of the WOA
4. Dependency on Export markets
5. Current World Ostrich Production
6. Interpreting the Production Figures
7. Administration
November 2004No 201. Avian Influenza South Africa - Press Release
2. Avian Influenza South Africa - Editor's Comment
3. Understanding our Markets
4. Country Liaisons
5. Annual General Meeting		Newsletter 21-40
December 2004No 211. Annual General Meeting
2. Membership
3. What is our Competition
4. CL Report from Australia
5. News from South Africa
Supplement
January 2005No 221. Happy New Year
2. AGM - Any Other Business Supplement Minutes
3. New Year - New Initiatives
4. Meat Quality
5. Discussion
6. New Case of BSE
February 2005No 231. Purpose of Newsletter
2. Best Practice vs Good Practice
3. Quality Mark Support
4. Market Statistics
5. Market Information
6. Industry Solutions
March 2005No 241. The importance of Nutrition in Disease Control
2. Comparative Industry Growth Rates
3. Do we have an Industry?
4. Obtaining Meaningful Data
April 2005No 251. Looking through the Archives
2. Conventional vs Alternative Medicine
3. Are your Goals High Enough?
4. Research Farm Update
5. Hatching Chicks
May 2005No 261. World Ostrich Marketing, Research and Development (WOMRAD)
2. Member Question
3. No Production - No Industry
4. Benchmarking
5. How do we get Meat Prices up and keep them up?
6. How do we establish our meat as a Niche Healthy Product?
7. Cranking up Production - What is the potential rate of growth?
8. Development of WOMRAD
9. Avian Influenza update and advise
June 2005No 271. Creating Long-Term Value in the Industry
2. Looking through the Archives
3. Science and Agriculture
4. Examples of Misinformation
5. News from South Africa
July 2005No 281. Make Poverty History
2. Alfalfa/Lucerne - History
3. Alfalfa/Lucerne - Where can it be grown?
4. Alfalfa/Lucerne - Quality
5. Alfalfa/Lucerne - Water Consumption
6. Alfalfa/Lucerne - Productive Value
August 2005No 291. Klein Karoo Group Acquisitions
2. Research and Development
3. Ostrich Meat - the Driving Product
4. Opportunities
Supplement
September 2005No 301. Value Chain vs Supply Chain
2. Dr. Thomas E. Elam
3. Ostrich Contributing to the Future Demand for Meat
4. Environmental Impact
5. Chemical and Pharmaceutical Contributions to Meat Production
October 2005No 311. Ostrich Supply Problems
2. South Africa lift self imposed Export Ban
3. Revenue per Bird
4. Low Yield Agriculture vs High Yield Agriculture
November 2005No 321. The Global Business of Food
2. Measurements of Business Performance
3. South African Ostrich Meat Exports Resume
4. Klein Karoo take over Exotan
5. 3rd Annual General Meeting
December 2005No 331. Introduction
2. Report on 2005 International Ostrich Industrialization Congress, the World Ostrich Development Congress XII and International Ostrich Industry Development Situation
3. Need for International Cooperation
4. Supply
5. Price
6. Technology
7. Decrease Costs of Production and Improve Quality of Products
8. AGM
9. Avian Influenza
10. Thank You and More Contributions
January 2006No 341. New Year Greetings
2. Avian Influenza
3. Introducing Alan Benyon
4. Country Liaison Report from Iran
5. Published Papers
6. Production Starts with the Breeders
7. Benchmarking Ostrich Production
8. Guidelines on Avian Influenza for Ostrich
9. Contributions
February 2006No 351. Ostrich Benchmark Performance Targets
2. Meat Muscle Sizes
3. Skins and Meat
4. Pricing Meat
5. The Role of the WOA Supporting Meat Marketing and Pricing
6. WOA Logo - Usage by Members.
7. Contributions
March 2006No 361. Avian Influenza
2. Breeder Valuation
3. Pricing Ostrich Meat
4. Ostrich Meat Grading
5. Developing WOA Logo for Marketing
6. Contributions
April 2006No 371. Avian Influenza Update
2. A Guide to Valuing Ostrich
3. Understanding Productive Value, or Relative Feed Value of Alfalfa
4. Producer Education
5. WOA Documents
6. Contributions
May 2006No 381. Introduction
2. Six Ways to increase your Income
3. Information on the Internet
4. Ancient Ostrich Eggs found in Israel
5. Contributions
June 2006No 391. Avian Influenza Update
2. The Future of Animal Agriculture in North America
3. Economics of Production, Processing and Marketing
4. Animal Protein Consumption
5. Impact of Government Policies on consumer demand
6. Annual General Meeting/Director Nominations
7. Contributions
July 2006No 401. Future Demand of Ostrich Meat
2. Trends
3. Barriers
4. Opportunities
5. AGM
6. Contributions		Newsletter 41-60
August 2006No 411. Web Site Changes
2. New Director
3. Optimising Nutrients
4. Daryl Holle
5. South African Avian Influenza Update
6. Contributions
Supplement: Nutrient recycling on humanity's menu
September 2006No 421. Introduction
2. Report from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
3. Directors Comments
4. WOMRAD
5. Web Site
6. AGM and Meeting in Vietnam
7. Contributions
October 2006No 431. Introduction
2. The Benefits of Building a Value Chain
3. Practical Examples of Value Chains
4. Clothing Industry to use Chicken Feathers
5. World’s Largest Ostrich Egg
6. Contributions
November 2006No 441. World Ostrich Congresses
2. Leather Grading
3. Costs of Production
4. Science and Technology of Livestock Production
5. Looking through the Archives – Breeder Production Goals
6. Transitioning to Commercial Production
7. Contributions
December 2006No 451. New Look Newsletter
2. Agricultural Outlook
3. Farm management
4. Commercialisation of Small Holder Agriculture
5. International Supermarkets
January 2007No 461.Seasons Greetings
2. January 2006
3. WOA Publications
4. Marketing
5. Country Liaison Reports
February 2007No 471. Developing Markets
2. South Africa
3. United States
4. Australia
5. Israel
6. Turkey
7. Projections of Global Meat Production - 2050
8. Summary
9. Comparative Annual Meat Tonnage (graphic
March 2007No 481. Australia and New Zealand
2. Analysis and Discussion
3. Processing Costs
4. Principles of Productive Agriculture
5. Maximising Performance, Reducing Production Costs
6. Bird Flu Turkeys – England
April 2007No 491. Developing countries are developing a taste for beef (article)
2. Meat Quality
3. Grain Prices Rising
4. South Africa – missed opportunities
5. Coping with Water Scarcity
6. Meat Consumption Comparisons by Region
May 2007No 501. Scientific Referencing
2.Feeding Broiler Breeders for Chick Quality
3.Newly Hatched Chicks and Early access to Feed
4.Breeding for Meat Quality and High Yield Products
5.How Animal Welfare Affects Shopping in Europe
June 2007No 511.FAO Statistical Year Book
2.Ostrich Production News
3.Feed Costs
4.Optimum Egg Quality – a practical approach
July 2007No 521.On Line Magazines
2.Marketing Starts on the Farm
3.The Importance of Attention to Detail
4.History of Feedstuff Availability
5.Communication
August 2007No 531. The Greatest Threat to the Industry
2.Report of First International Ostrich Meat Congress
3.Marketing Starts on the Farm
4.Carbon Monoxide Meat Packaging
5.Eliminating Variability
6.Brazil Export Meat to Europe
September 2007No 541.Translation
2.Marketing Starts on the Farm
3.Food Safety/Consumer Health
4.Traceability
5.Animal Welfare
6.Residues
7.Quality
8.Disease Control
9.Reliability of Supply
10.From Farm to Fork
October 2007No 551.Translation
2.EurepGap becomes GLOBALGAP
3.Veterinary Health Plans
4.Nutrition and Health
5.AGM Reminder
November 2007No 561.World Poultry Ostrich Blog
2.SA Deregister Hormonal Growth Stimulants in Ostrich
3.Increasing Demand for Meat Protein
4.What is our Market?
5.Ostrich Meat Prices
6.World Ostrich Congress(s) 2007
7.World Ostrich Association AGM
December 2007No 571. World Poultry Ostrich Blog
2. World Meat Consumption Data
3. Market Size
4. What is our Current Selling Price?
Supplement: World Meat Consumption Data
January 2008No 581. Happy New Year
2. Avian Influenza
3. Papers from World Ostrich Conference in Latvia
4. Marketing
5. Industry Information
6. Nutrition
7. Anatomy
8. Incubation
9. Semen Collection
10.Products
February 2008No 591. Introduction
2. Genetics
3. Forage Testing
4. Alfalfa suitable for most climates
March 2008No 601. Genetics and Incubation
2. Poultry Nutritionists and Veterinarians – How interactive are they?
3. Optimum Vitamin Nutrition™
4. Feather Pecking
5. Avian Influenza – Saudi Arabia Ostrich Negative
April 2008No 611. Food – Who Pays the price?
2. Review of the Ostrich Industry
3. Global Production Statistics
4. How Much Does it Cost to Produce an Ostrich?
5. Saving Feed Costs with Faster Growth
6. Do we care enough about water?
May 2008No 621. Food Security
2. Current Global Food Situation
3. Optimising Resources
4. Managing Risk in Feed Price Policy
5. Botswana Ostrich News Report
June 2008No 631. Global Agricultural Trends
2. Animal Welfare Improving Profitability
3. Factory Farming and Animal Welfare
4. Production Livestock Web Sites
5. Press Release on Collecting Ostrich Semen
July 2008No 641. More Pressure on Feed Prices
2. Farm Management Pocket Book
3. Growth Rate Chart for Ostrich Chicks
4. Residue Monitoring
5. Frequently Asked Questions
August 2008No 651. Global Economy
2. Increasing Demand for the ‘4 Fs’
3. Small Farmers and Ostrich
4. Financial Impact of Volume
5. AGM 2008
September 2008No 661. Ostrich in the News
2. Volume Production
3. Ostrich Cluster Structure
4. Halaal Slaughter
5. AGM 2008
October 2008No 671. Global Financial Markets
2. World Meat Congress
3. Supply Chain
4. Gut Health
5. AGM 2008
November 2008No 681. Global Financial Markets
2. Ostrich Sandwich Guinness World Record Attempt
3. FAO World Food Day
4. Food Safety
5. AGM 2008
December 2008No 691. World Food Situation
2. Alternative Feed Ingredients: An opportunity to combat high feed prices?
3. Understanding Variables
4. Genetic Gains: FCR should be the Focus
January 2009No 701. New Year Greeting
2. Land Grab
3. MTF – Meat per tonne of Feed, is it a better benchmark figure?
4. The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2008
February 2009No 711. Domestication of Livestock
2. Middle East Tops List for Brazilian Exports in ‘08
3. Global Feed Manufacture
4. Production Report from Saudi Arabia
5. Currency updates
March 2009No 721. Ostrich Meat Nutritional Values
2. World Food Situation
3. Food Labelling and SMEs
4. Frozen Food Market
5. Dry Matter Determination in Animal Feed
April 2009No 731. Food Marketing and Safe Quality Food Institutes
2. Prospects for Agricultural Markets and Income in the European Union 2008-2015
3. Vitamin Variability in Feed Ingredients
4. Avoiding Mixing Mistakes
May 2009No 741. Ostrich Value Chain
2. Developments in Southern Africa
3. Access to Markets
4. Infrastructure
5. Funding
June 2009No 751. Ostrich Value Chain
2. Defining Volume
3. The Missing F Word
4. Talking Genetics
5. FOA Launch Animal Welfare Portal
July 2009No 761. Investor’s Eye Australian Poultry
2. Global Food Prices
3. Africa’s Sleeping Giant
4. USDA Foreign Agricultural Service – Crop Explorer
August 2009No 771. Cutting Costs and Adding Value
2. Defining the Whole Chain
3. Efficiencies in the Ostrich Chain
4. Welfare in the News
September 2009No 781. Importance of Disease Control and Adequate Residue Monitoring
2. Performance Data Drives Improvement
3. Alternative Feed Ingredients
4. Certification Schemes – EU Impact Assessment
October 2009No 791. Integrated Food Safety
2. Traceability
3. Animal Feed
4. Laboratory Quality Assurance
5. Biosecurity
6. Managing Food Control Systems
7. Good Practices and Quality Assurance
November 2009No 801. Ostrich Industry Reports
2. Australian Biosecurity Manual
3. Reports from the Pig Industry
4. Soya Availability
5. FAO Examining Land Tenure
December 2009No 811. FAO Agrees Stronger World Food Security Governance
2. GM Feed Does Not Make GM Chicken
3. Calls for Livestock Production Cuts
4. Climategate
January 2010No 821. New Years Greetings
2. Business Model
3. Start Up Business need to Convert New Technology to Economic Value
4. Business Models and Ostrich
February 2010No 831. Potential Threats
2. Artificial Meat (In Vitro)
3. Low Fat no longer a key selling point?
4. New Opportunities
March 2010No 841. South Africa: Heatwave Kills more than 2,000 ostriches
2. Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception
3. City Food Lecture – Managing the Earth’s Resources to Deliver Food for Nine Billion
April 2010No 851. South Africa – Grahamstown Abattoirs Shut Down by water shortage
2. Now it’s CowGate
3. University of Alberta Videos
4. Innovative new designs in production
May 2010No 861. The State of Food and Agriculture 2009 - Summary
2. Drivers of Consumption Trends
3. Food Security and Poverty Reduction
4. Ensuring development is environmentally sustainable
5. Balancing animal and human health requirements
6. Conclusion
June 2010No 871. Accessing Markets
2. Optimizing meat colour with feed formulations
3. Climate Change – Global Cooling
July 2010No 881. The Past and Present of Ostrich Production in Turkey
2. Tracking the True Tale of Turkeys
3. Assurance Schemes
4. Welfare in the News
August 2010No 891. The importance of Genetics in Commercial Livestock Production
2. Tannery Waste in Fish and Poultry Feed
3. Animal protein feed restrictions to be eased
4. Stunning at Slaughter and Halaal Certification
5. Climategate Investigation Reports
September 2010No 901. Extreme Weather Events
2. A critical review of Botswana’s ostrich industry
3. World Pork Output Grows
4. Feed Companies Reporting Upturn
October 2010No 911. Web Site Hosting Service Move
2. Animal Cloning & Genetic Modification
3. Forecasting potential global environmental costs of livestock production 2000-2050
4. Comparative Saturated Fat Content of Meat
5. AGM
November 2010No 921. Annual General Meeting
2. Review
- Markets
- Finance
- Standards
- Genetics
- Infrastructure
December 2010No 931. Steve Warrington
2. Incubation and Chick Quality
3. What Age Black Feathers?
January 2011No 941. Season’s Greetings
2. FAO Food Outlook
3. Feed Efficiency: On-Farm Checks
4. Bygholm Sieve and Food Particle Size
February 2011No 951. Dioxine Contaminated Animal Feed in Europe
2. FAO Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources
3. The Ostrich Value Pyramid
March 2011No 961. Proposal over GM Material in Feed Endorsed
2. Growth Curves of Ostrich
3. Was it incompetence by those scientists or does it go deeper?
4. Floods in Australia
5. Middle East
April 2011No 971. Increasing Food Prices
2. The UFAW Farm Handbook
3. The Five Freedoms
4. Body Condition Scoring
May 2011No 981. Avian Flu in South African Ostrich
2. Farmer Slaughter Bird Payment Systems
3. How do Buyers of Slaughter Birds verify the Age of Birds?
4. What is the percentage Value of Ostrich Meat in the Overall Value of the Bird?
June 2011No 991. Rogue Traders
2. South Africa Avian Flu Update
3. Variation in Turkey Meat Colour: a Consumer Issue in Germany
4. Genetic Improvement by Natural Selection
5. How does consumer fear of GM Crops affect Ostrich Production?
July 2011No 1001. The 100th Edition
2. South African Influenza Outbreak Update
3. OECO-FAO Agricultural Food Outlook 2011-2020
4. G20 Agricultural Ministers Action Plan
August 2011No 1011. World Pig meat hitting record levels while sow numbers tumble
2. World Meat Consumption Projections
3. Guidelines to Evaluate Bird Size and Development
4. Avian Influenza South Africa, update
September 2011No 1021. Purpose of World Ostrich Association
2. Animal Welfare – Slaughter Plant Monitoring
3. Costs of Purchasing Ostrich Eggs and Chicks
4. South Africa – Avian Influenza Update
October 2011No 1031. What is “scientifically proven”?
2. What is a “Variable” when conducting any experiment or trial?
3. What is Veldt Pasture and Pasture?
4. Importance of getting chicks eating in first week
5. South Africa Avian Influenza
6. Annual General Meeting 2011
November 2011No 1041. Food Prices and Sustainability
- Rabobank
- FAO
- World Population Growth
2. Ph in Ostrich Meat
3. Understanding Dry Matter in Nutrition
4. Annual General Meeting 2011
December 2011No 1051. Avian Influenza still active in South Africa
2. Defining Nutrient Density
3. Benefits of Recording Feed Conversion
4. Ostrich Production Survey