A new Trading Bonus Scheme (TBS), to run for a full year for Glanbia Co-operative Society dairy, beef, pig and sheep farmers in Ireland, was launched in mid-January, and is due to be paid in the first quarter of 2019. It has had a mixed reaction.
Cattle feeding challenges and water use are among the initial production hiccups highlighted by a new visual tracking system that can be used to identify individual cows, says biotech firm.
Supplemental yeast in the diets of dairy cows may improve fiber digestion, nitrogen yield and, for cows on a high starch diet, reduce risk of disease, says researcher.
New research shows it may be possible to convert Greek yogurt acid whey waste into either a feed additive or aviation fuel, and, critically, without the use of additional chemicals.
Ascus Biosciences is looking to translate research focused on sampling and identifying communities of microbes in the rumen of high performing dairy cows into a health and production focused feed supplement.
Dutch feed group, ForFarmers, says it is facing challenges in the UK - both in the market and in its own organization - as it announced its third quarter 2017 trading update.
Trouw Nutrition researchers say they are continuing to glean insights into the effects of early nutrition and management on the development of the dairy cow.
Indian feed producer, Godrej Agrovet, has set a price range of 450-460 rupees a share for its initial public offering (IPO) to raise up to 11.6 billion rupees (US$177.6m), according to a public notice published today.
Profitability, in general, is back in French dairy farming, and the sector is becoming increasingly concentrated, a trend that is supporting Lallemand’s business strategy.
Cargill’s digital technology platform offers dairy producers an easier way to understand their farms’ data and make feeding decisions, says product director.
A study showed that increasing crude protein in sows’ diets to 135 g/kg feed or 850 g/d improved litter average daily gain (ADG) by increasing milk yield and protein output in milk.
Irish dairy lobby group, the ICSMA, has expressed strong reservations about the five-year fixed milk price contract proposed by Glanbia, primarily its feed component.
The Brett Group, an Irish integrated multinational pork and bacon processor with annual revenues of €100m, is striving for greater production efficiency, particularly in feed milling, to mitigate against Brexit led market volatility.
EFSA was unable to conclude on the safety of a feed material produced by fermentation with Escherichia coli, a by-product of the production of l-lysine, for certain animals and for meat consumers.
Although increasingly in demand in South Asia, raw milk output in the Indian Subcontinent in particular is being held back by tradition in the form of chosen animal genotypes, the conditions in which herds are kept and severe deficiencies in feeding regimes,...
In response to a request from feed manufacturers, the Irish Department of Agriculture has clarified what the maximum content of iodine in complete feeds for dairy cows should be.
New technology and the development of precise on farm rationing systems can help European dairy producers protect and improve income over feed cost (IOFC) - a valuable benchmark for farmers to track improvements, says Cargill.
Educating African and Asian farmers to improve milk production can take 20 years, says FrieslandCampina executive who runs a farmers’ training initiative
Bioscreen Technologies is targeting the global dairy markets following investment to improve both capacity and to enhance the active content in its rumen protected nutrition products.
Farmers in the UK and Austria could be among first to experiment with an automated robotic animal feed-growing machine, which its makers claim can revolutionise the way animal feed is made.
Phosphorus control, a pertinent issue in the Dutch dairy sector right now, was one of the areas Cargill zoomed in on a recent education initiative involving Dutch feed millers.
Oilseed crush in Canada this year is forecast to dip 4% to 10.5 million metric tons (MMT) from 11 MMT in 2016/17 due to low carry-in stocks and only a modest rise in overall oilseeds production available for crushing, said the USDA.
Nutriad has traditionally focused on the swine and poultry segments in Asia, but is now looking to target the cattle market in the region, bringing insights from other ruminant markets to Asia Pacific (APAC).
Finnish food and agribusiness, Raisio, estimates its operating profit for 2017 will fall slightly short of earnings for 2016, and predicts exchange rates will continue to hit its EBIT.