livestock industry News
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Nutritech International and Vitec Nutrition to merge
Nutritech International and Lallemand NZ Ltd (trading as Vitec Nutrition) have announced they are to merge their businesses effective from 1st June 2016, creating New Zealand’s largest supplier of animal nutrition and forage additive technologies. Nutritech International was founded in 1915, celebrating 100 years of advice and support for New Zealand farmers in 2015. The company has been ...
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Ag Exporters, Farm Groups Press Administration on Chinese Biotech Issues
In a letter on November 1, 2013 to U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association and U.S. Canola Association raised concerns regarding ongoing delays, lack of transparency and arbitrary decisions in China’s ...
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Immaris – Shows promise as Immune Boosting Feed Additive
Oreka Solutions and the University of Idaho announced today ground-breaking research showing that Oreka’s insect-based feed ingredient Immaris could help trout and salmon generate an enhanced immunostimulatory response during infections such as Cold Water Disease (CWD). Cold Water Disease (CWD) is one of the major diseases affecting trout and salmon farming. According to the USDA, CWD ...
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USSEC Attends World Soy-Feeds Conference in Russia
The World Soy-Feeds Conference is one of the main annual events in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) for local crushers, feed millers and livestock companies. Organized in Saint Petersburg, the event’s main goal is to disseminate the latest international information from the field of market trends, soy processing, and soy ingredient use in animal feeds by the rapidly ...
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The hidden environmental costs of meat production
The meat industry involves global trading of feed, live animals and processed meat. A new study suggests that environmental costs are not necessarily expressed in the price paid by the consumers benefiting from cheap meat, but as environmental damage further back up the supply chain. Global meat consumption has increased by 75 per cent in 20 years, with consumers becoming increasingly removed ...
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Commission-funded report blames Europe for global forest destruction
Europe leads the industrialised world in driving global deforestation, according to an independent report released today by the European Commission [1]. European consumption of goods led to a forest loss of at least nine million hectares between 1990 and 2008, an area the size of Ireland. Forests in the Amazon, South-East Asia and Africa were worst affected. Major industrialised economies, along ...
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Harper Government Supports National Livestock Traceability Database
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz today announced an investment of $7.5 million to the Canadian Agri Traceability Services to develop, implement and operate a national livestock traceability data service. This national traceability database will collect, maintain and manage information in accordance with national standards, federal and provincial regulations, and ...
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Industrial Livestock Feed Pellet Mill Production Machine On Sale
Industrial feed pellet mill has a wide cylindrical shape die and is mounted vertically. This big industrial feed pellet mill consists of feeding device, hardening and tempering device, conditioner device, press chamber transmission system, overload protection and electric control system. This ring die type industrial pellet mill is widely adopted in most large scale feed pellet production, like ...
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Feed Processing Equipment Accelerates The Development Of The Feed Industry
The feed industry is an important industry that supports the farming of livestock and poultry, and it is also an industry that measures the modernization level of animal husbandry. At present, poultry and animals are basically fed with feed pellets, and feed processing equipment has specialized feed machinery and equipment. Feed Processing Equipment Accelerates The Development Of The Feed ...
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Things You Need To Know 2-3 T/H Animal Feed Plant
Animal feed pelleting process complete sets of equipment is large and medium-sized feed farms to produce powder feed, concentrated feed, pellet feed with a high degree of automation, is the ideal equipment for animal husbandry. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional animal feed plant manufacturer, this article will introduce industry 2-3T/H animal feed plant in detail. Animal Feed ...
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Peak Meat
By Janet Larsen U.S. meat consumption has peaked. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that meat eating across the country fell from the 2004 high point of 184 pounds (83 kilograms) per person to 171 pounds in 2011. Early estimates for 2012 project a further reduction in American meat eating to 166 pounds, making for a 10 percent drop over the eight-year period. For a society ...
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