The impact of animal diseases, economic ambiguity, continued high food price inflation, persistent weather irregularities and increased imports of poultry products from Ukraine are affecting EU27 compound feed production, says FEFAC.
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.
Denmark’s Innovation Fund - together with Carus Animal Health and a raft of other Danish and British companies - have invested just over 20 million DKK (US$2.9m) in a project focused on the use of bacteriophages to control bacterial diseases in aquaculture,...
The prevalence of infectious diseases in the aquaculture industry requires a multi-pronged approach to control; the experts agree there is no one silver bullet in terms of managing health and welfare in fish and shrimp farming.
EU funded project, BROILERNET, is aiming to improve and strengthen the broiler sector in Europe by building a platform for interaction between industry and researchers.
Experts from the Copa and Cogeca working groups on the cereal and oilseeds markets estimated this week that cereal production in the EU-27 will reach 277m tons in the 2022 harvest, some 4.4% lower than the year prior.
Industrial compound feed production in the EU remained stable in 2021. However, the increasing threat from animal diseases and the continuing global grain market rally fueled by the Russian reinvasion of Ukraine is expected to reduce compound feed demand...
