Leaf Management News
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The Ideal Environment for Chick Placement
Producers are tasked with increasing a chick’s body weight 4-5 times within the first seven days. Miss one day of optimal performance and 5-7% of growth potential can be lost. Creating an ideal environment for chick placement is a crucial part of attaining the desired performance, and something that is within each producer’s control. Pretty litter ≠ healthy environment. As soon ...
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Change in the Management at EnviroChemie - Gottlieb Hupfer leaves the Management Board
The long-standing CEO of EnviroChemie, Gottlieb Hupfer, is leaving the Management Board of the company as planned at the end of September, after reaching his 61st birthday. He will remain associated with the company in an advisory capacity. Mr Hupfer has managed the company, which was founded in Switzerland 40 years ago, since 1988, and in this time has built it up to be a leading specialist for ...
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Online Order Point Makes `Open Farm Sunday` Plans as Easy as AHDB
There are already over 360 farms preparing to welcome the public on Open Farm Sunday, next month (8 June), including Brookfield Farm from BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Archers’. Now all farms involved can get a whole range of free resources from their levy board to use on the big day. All sorts of posters, leaflets and handouts are available to give away to help inform and engage visitors ...
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Boreal forests may benefit from controlled fires, depending on forest management
Controlled fires could help the regeneration capacity of some insects in regions of intensively managed forests, according to a recent study of Finnish forests that are part of an EU LIFE restoration project. Results indicated that fire can be an effective conservation measure but its impact depends on the region’s history and context. Natural forests and the species that inhabit them are ...
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