The way we offer feed is most likely just as important as the composition of the feed. This is according to the Dutch feed company Coppens that carried out research in cooperation with Cargill and Wageningen University and Research Centre [...]
Weighing chickens and monitoring their development can be a time-consuming business and a single worker is only likely to complete a small sample by hand each week. And while remotely monitored scales can help, they suffer from blind spots [...]
At the beginning of this year, the Belgian-Dutch hatchery group BHV launched its concept to hatch chicks inside the poultry house: NestBorn. Dutch broiler farmer Robèr van Zutven has been involved with this concept from the beginning and is [...]
The rumen is actually the keystone of feed efficiency: it is the main first organ of the cow digestive tract. What can be done to further optimise it? Feed efficiency can be defined as the ratio between performance and feed [...]
Russian agricultural holding RusAgro has acquired CapitalAgro together with its distribution company CapitalAgro Trade House for 1.8 billion roubles (US$ 30 million), the company said in a statement on its website. Within the deal, RusAgro gained control over several pig farms in Belgorod [...]
Tops, a premium supermarket chain in Thailand, has announced to phase out selling pork from sows kept in sow stalls during gestation. The company announced this in a press release this month. Tops supermarkets is a grocery chain which belongs to Central Food [...]
Adding phytase to monogastric diets increases the digestibility of phosphorus and calcium. But there is less data available on the effect of adding phytase on amino acid digestibility. More understanding on this interaction is therefore needed. Whilst the benefit of [...]
To address the environmental sustainability concerns regarding aquafeed, a US team has seen the effectiveness of replacing fishmeal and fish oil with different types of marine microalgae in Nile tilapia. Aquaculture is growing and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), a major [...]
How do we exploit data we collect on our farms? How do we maintain oversight? Mike Jansen and Wim Polman from PoultryPlan have developed a clever software suite to help poultry integrations overcome the gap between hunch and putting [...]
From 2010 to 2016, the aquaculture industry increased its value by US$ 100 billion, reaching $ 232 billion. This is according to Rabobank, and based on FAO statistics. Switching to more technology-driven and efficient intensive farming technologies has enabled fish farmers to [...]
