Quite contrary to the current weather conditions, the mood is rather frosty on the EU pigs-mature-for-slaughter markets these days. On the part of the slaughter companies, demand is very restrained for pigs for slaughter with the quantities on offer [...]
EU court: Gene editing is gene modification Novel gene editing techniques should be viewed in the same way as genetic modification. That has been the verdict of the highest European court. This could have consequences for the way animals are [...]
The drought not only hits European farmers. In Australia, farmers are desperately searching for animal feed for their animals. ABC rural reports that livestock areas are bare in New South Wales, parts of Queensland and South Australia. The impact of [...]
Insights over demand for slower growing broilers across Europe has shown a complex market with a range of cultural drivers. Aviagen’s Rowan Range business manager in Europe Claudio Ambrogio has spent the past year visiting colleagues and customers across Europe [...]
GLOBAL – Breakthrough in industrial CO2 usage Professor Arne Skerra of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has succeeded for the first time in using gaseous CO2 as a basic material for the production of a chemical mass product in a [...]
Dairy processor Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited announced on May 23 an opening Farmgate Milk Price forecast of $ 7.00 per kg milk solids (MS) for the 2018/19 season. Chairman John Wilson said the strong opening milk price would be very welcome [...]
Ruminant experts have defined a set of indicators to help evaluate the efficiency of the rumen on-farm: the Rumen Efficiency Investigation (REI). Here we take a closer look at 4 of them and explain how supplemental yeast can benefit [...]
The American Feed Industry Association wants a “full and successful implementation of FSMA” across its varied industries and urges the FDA to take a flexible approach when regulating under this rule. The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) therefore submitted comments [...]
Countries are making significant steps in tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR), but serious gaps remain and require urgent action. This is according to a report released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Organisation for Animal Health [...]
Protected benzoic acid improved growth performance in birds that were subject to Eimeria challenge, according to new research released this week by Novus International. Frances Yan, senior poultry nutrition research scientist at Novus, told the Poultry Science Association annual meeting, [...]
