China has agreed to reopen its market to imports of German poultry meat, German agriculture minister Julia Kloeckner announced earlier this week. China had stopped imports of German poultry meat after an outbreak of the bird flu disease in Germany. Ms [...]
International supplies of carbon dioxide gas have become so low that it has forced the largest pig abattoir in Scotland, UK, to close its doors. Based in Brechin, Angus county, Quality Pork processes 6,000 pigs a week, which is 60% [...]
In Ecuador, the US Grains Council’s (USGC) is helping swine and poultry producers improve their feed formulations using distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS). Ecuador is a corn-producing nation, backed by a government self-sufficiency policy. In the past few years, [...]
Scientists have found neonicotinoid residues in the livers of wild turkeys, providing evidence that this common agrochemical is being ingested by free-ranging animals. Researchers from the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Canada, say the study is one of the [...]
With continued uncertainty over Brexit, worries over hard borders and trade tariffs are becoming more apparent. Eoin Mccarthy speaks to livestock producers in Ireland about their concerns for the future and how hard borders could drastically impact upon their [...]
The International agricultural food commodity prices fell in June for the first time in 2018, as trade tensions affected markets even with global production prospects down. This is according to the FAO Food Price Index. The FAO Food Price Index is [...]
The poultry industry, like many other fields, is seeing its share of technological innovations due, in part, to small startups focused on a specific problem in need of improvement. Andrew Amelinckx reports on seven companies that are transforming everything [...]
The Bombay High Court in Mumbai has ordered veterinary drug stores across the state to stop selling antibiotics for use on livestock unless the farmer has a prescription, to prevent the growing problem of drug resistance. Madlen Davies, The [...]
All About Feed wraps up the latest updates and new business developments and products from the global feed industry. Here’s a quick overview on what is happening around the world. 50 year anniversary for WAMGROUP WAMGROUP is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year [...]
While eyes have been on digital transformation in internet banking, e-commerce and electric vehicles in the Far East, few people realise that one of the largest areas of digitisation has been taking place in the poultry sector. Charoen Pokphands Foods (CPF)’s [...]
