In a year marked by volatility, Alltech's Agri-Food Outlook for 2023 provides a comprehensive overview of the intricate dynamics shaping the feed production industry worldwide.
ForFarmers' financial results for Q3 2023 show a recovery of underlying EBITDA. While sales volumes declined compared to the same period in 2022, they were roughly equal to Q2 this year.
The UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have announced £9m (US$11.43m) funding for phase two of the endemic livestock disease initiative.
A UK project is looking to increase pulse cropping in arable rotations to 20% across the UK from the current 5% level, and to develop and test new feed rations.
UK animal feed production has declined at a stronger rate than initially expected across all sectors, in the past few months, according to newly released data.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, is potentially looking to provide millions in backing to the vertical pork and feed integrator.
The latest RUMA Targets Task Force report shows that, despite an unprecedented year, UK livestock sectors are making good progress on antibiotic use targets.
As part of its strategy for growth, ABN has unveiled its plan to build what will be the UK’s biggest, state-of-the-art, feed mill in the East of England, capable of producing 1m tons of pig and poultry feed on an annual basis.
The carbon footprint of British pig farming has reduced by almost 40% over the last 20 years, according to a new study, using a new methodology, led by the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Dietary fiber has received a considerable amount of attention in recent years with fiber components demonstrating beneficial effects in chickens and pigs.
A newly devised method for pig feeding monitoring is said to have great potential for application in the early detection of health and welfare challenges of commercial pigs.
The mildly bearish June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) contained few surprises with the USDA taking a cautious approach as ever with incremental changes, reports CRM AgriCommodities.
An analyst report outlines how the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) into Germany may have less severe consequences for EU pig prices than it would have 18 months ago.
ABN, the UK manufacturer of pig and poultry feed, says it is working hard to encourage the next generation to move into the industry and, in that context, is offering scholarship placements of 12-months duration to UK two university students.
ForFarmers has been shortlisted for this year’s Antibiotic Guardian Awards in the UK under the animal health, agriculture and food supply category, as a result of the work it has done on antibiotic reduction in that country’s pig sector.
The African swine fever (ASF) virus, initially detected in Vietnam in February, has resulted in the culling of over 1.3m domestic pigs in that market, so far, according to an update from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Swedish researchers looked at feeding a novel feed resource, Lepidium cake (LC), to grower pigs, saw that it was a palatable feed, and that it did not seem to cause the animals any detrimental health effect.
Designing swine diets using the ratio of digestible calcium and phosphorus may support growth performance and feed intake as overfeed calcium can slow both, says researcher.
Ireland based researchers have found that xylanase or xylanase + β-glucanase dietary supplementation does not seem to improve feed efficiency in grow-finisher pigs.
Researchers based at Aarhus University in Foulum, Denmark are optimistic they can partially replace traditional protein ingredients like soy with clover grass in organic pig feed.
Northern Ireland headquartered, Devenish Nutrition, has invested €1m in developing the Ugandan pig and feed industry via a long term project that has transformed productivity.
Phosphate production from livestock manure declined further in the Netherlands in 2018, according to provisional figures released by Statistics Netherlands (CBS).
Black Soldier Fly (BSF) derived protein and single cell proteins from bacterial sources are two products nominated by an expert group as having potential in terms of new feed inputs for pigs and poultry.
In the year up to September 2018, the feed conversion ratio (FCR) for the UK pig herd had improved compared to the 2017 average, according to the latest Agrosoft data, cited by the AHDB in a report
