Industry News & Blogs
US: Groups want ‘comprehensive’ FTA with EU
A coalition of US food and agricultural organizations led by the National Pork Producers Council is urging the Obama administration to press the European Union to negotiate a “comprehensive” free trade agreement, including addressing sanitary-phytosanitary (SPS) barriers to trade. In a letter (s...
Aquaponics: Are we ready to respond?
During Alltech's symposium "Glimpse 2020" held in Kentucky, USA, many topics were discussed including aquaculture technology. Among the many promising technologies presented in the Farming the Sea sessions was aquaponics, a system that intergrates hydroponic plant production with recirculating fish...
Chicken to make comeback at Shanghai markets
Shanghai is planning to allow cold-processed poultry meat back onto the market by the end of May, giving the heavily hit poultry industry a chance at recovery following the bird flu outbreak earlier this year. The decision follows no new confirmed cases of the H7N9 virus on the Chinese mainland for ...
AveSui 2013 ends successfully
The main event for the swine and poultry industries in Brazil ended on thursday 16 May and hit the market with news, technology and partnerships formed. The 12th edition of the Latin American Trade Fair for the Poultry and Swine Industries, AveSui 2013, ended on thurday with 17.800 attendees during ...
Product: QE launches new feed handling brouchure
A Suffolk-based pig equipment specialists, Quality Equipment, has produced a new brochure on feed handling systems. It provides pig farmers with a wealth of information on all types of kit needed to transport feed around the farm and to the pigs. This includes everything from simple troughs and ho...
Four steps to focus on your core business
Damien McLoughlin, Dean of the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business at University College Dublin in Ireland, started his presentation at Alltech Symposium this week with the fact ‘Companies are dying’. Most growth plans fail, but certainly the remaining 10% succeed. McLoughlin maintained that...
Will pigs be antibiotic-free by 2020?
At the recent Alltech symposium in Lexington, Kentucky, Terry Coffey from Murphy Brown addressed the issue of the use of antibiotics in the pig industry and will the industry be antibiotic-free by 2020. “We first must understand science and then balance that with consumer demand,” Coffey said. Accor...
Co-products: A must for sustainable pork production
Feed prices continue to rise since cereals can also be used for fuel production. Using biofuel co-products, particularly DDGS in swine feed may therefore be both an affordable as well as sustainable solution. Over the last months, several reviews have been published about feeding co-products from bi...
Glimpse of the Future – Alltech 29th Symposium
One of the most inspiring events in the animal nutrition industry, Alltech 29th symposium in Lexington, Kentucky this week, accommodating as many as 2,400 people from 72 countries. Dr Pearse Lyons, president and the founder of Alltech, who’s entrepreneurial spirit and investment of US$10,000 has led...
UK: Pig industry award on offer
The pig industry is looking to honour somebody who has gone the extra mile to help – and there are many out there. The David Black Award is given each year to somebody who has made a significant and sustained contribution to the industry.The decision is made by a panel of independent judges chaired ...
