Calls for the US Food and Drug Administration to have oversight of pre-market safety evaluations for cell-based meat and poultry products have been made in a letter to President Donald Trump. The letter, which comes from the North American Meat [...]
During the recent conference of the International Poultry Council the attendees got the latest insights on the so called Chicken of Tomorrow, among other things of course. With the venue held in the Netherlands, the concept chicken could not be [...]
Stress and a lack of resources can trigger hormonal shifts that make it more likely for a mother to produce female offspring. And research from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences suggests that it’s also true [...]
Singaporean company The Privé Group has committed to a 100% cage free egg supply chain, signalling a further shift in the Asian food industry towards higher welfare products. In recent months, other companies have made similar global cage-free egg commitments [...]
Sales and profits tumbled for third largest US poultry producer Sanderson Farms in its fiscal third quarter with the company facing not just a seasonal down-turn but also rising feed costs and a domestic glut of meat. The figures, which [...]
Beak treatments will formally be banned in the Netherlands from next year, but the market has moved ahead of legislation. Poultry World discovers how farms are managing the change. From the beginning of September, members of the Netherlands’ largest egg [...]
Just-weaned piglets thrive when humic acids are added to their diets. That conclusion was drawn by researchers from the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, as reported by the German publication Wochenblatt für Landwirtschaft und Landleben. Higher feed intake and ADG The researchers [...]
In this globalised world, information is available everywhere. On the web, there are lists of virtually everything, from hotels to universities – and farming should be no exception. Now how can benchmarking improve farming? Health and nutrition expert Edgar [...]
In feed mills, dust should be controlled to safeguard the health of the employees and the environment and to prevent dust explosions. So what is dust exactly? The dust with a particle size of less than 10μm, usually floating in [...]
Brazilian researchers looked at the possibility to increase extruder productivity without elevating electric energy consumption, an important economic consideration for dog food production efficiency. The research paper, to be published in the September issue of Animal Feed Science and Technology, [...]
