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Cows maybe more than just a pretty face with new visual technology © GettyImages/pixinoo

Cainthus in strategic partnership with Cargill

Efficient feed, water use focus in ag-tech partnership

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

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.

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Indian feed player Godrej Agrovet going down IPO route

By Jane Byrne

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.

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Irish pig feed player invests to meet Brexit challenges head-on

By Jane Byrne

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.

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Question over safety of GM bacteria derived feed product

By Jane Byrne

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. 

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South Asian dairy yields held back by poor diet

By Paul Gander

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,...

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Canada: Outlook for canola and soybean meal production

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

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.

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VIV Asia 2017 Preview

India: Ruminants on Nutriad’s radar

By Jane Byrne

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).

'The farmers were extremely forthright, skeptical at the start but very open to new ideas, and, in the end, were very collaborative, which helped in ensuring PLF tools trialed were applicable in the field' © Cowmatix

What does a coughing pig reveal?

By Jane Byrne

Is precision livestock farming (PLF) still a utopian dream or does agribusiness see such tools as potentially transformative?