Protein-rich microbes, produced in large-scale industrial facilities, are likely to increasingly replace traditional crop-based feed. This is according to researchers from the Netherlands, Belgium and Australia who estimated the economic and environmental potential of feeding microbial protein to pigs, cattle [...]
Consumers are increasingly concerned about the origin and quality of the food on their plates. These concerns include aspects of human health, animal health and welfare and the environment. Research was done on consumer acceptance of eggs from Hy-Line [...]
GLOBAL – Which food type is more environmentally costly to produce – livestock, farmed seafood, or wild-caught fish? The answer is, it depends. But in general, industrial beef production and farmed catfish are the most taxing on the environment, while [...]
Researchers at the University of Missouri have now found that zinc plays a key role in promoting fertility in males, a discovery that has implications for improved in vitro fertilisation and artificial insemination in livestock and for human infertility [...]
Tonisity discusses liquid nutrition to reduce mortality in pre-weaning piglets; introducing their isotonic drink, Tonisity Px For today’s swine producer, efficiency is everything. It drives profitability and is a key success indicator if operations are to remain competitive in the [...]
Dr Keith Bramwell, senior technical advisor to the Jamesway Incubator Company, addresses whether feeding individual chicks immediately after hatch is beneficial to the uniform growth of the flock as a whole Development of the avian embryo, or chick, can be [...]
FAO was granted € 2 million from the Belgium Government to broaden its fight against Fall Armyworm in Africa and restore agricultural productive activity in Gaza. The recent arrival of Fall Armyworm (FAW) in sub-Saharan Africa has put maize harvests, especially those of [...]
Aviagen has recently completed the first phase of a more than €35 million investment in its UK breeding programme, with the aim of benefiting Aviagen’s customer base through the provision of broilers and breeders of the highest genetic merit [...]
Despite similar genetic backgrounds and similar diets, large variations in production performance of commercial growing-finishing pigs exist among farms, writes Matthew Wedzerai, writer in the pig husbandry and animal feed industry. Health status is the major contributing factor to this [...]
The Pig Site speaks to Kayla Silva, researcher within the Department of Animal Biosciences at the University of Guelph, Ontario, about her current research regarding swine nutrition. Tell us a bit about yourself… My name is Kayla Silva, I finished my [...]
