animal farming News
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MagFan comes out on top in comprehensive fan efficiency report!
AgriFutures Australia has recently completed an independent report on the importance and advantages of using Variable Speed Fans for Intensive Animal Farming. MagFan comes out on top in comprehensive fan efficiency report! AgriFutures Australia: "Studies have shown that one of the biggest on-farm expenses for chicken meat farmers is the power consumed by the exhaust fans. Energy prices are ...
By DACS A/S
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When shopping for meat, the more you know the better
Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFMI) is providing shoppers with a new level of transparency about how farm animals are raised by now offering beef, pork and chicken certified under 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating system (bit.ly/fawOft). The rating system is the signature program of Global Animal Partnership, a nonprofit organization that facilitates and encourages continuous improvement in animal ...
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Porphyrio NV acquired by Evonik Industries
On 31th October Evonik Industries, headquartered in Essen (Germany), completed the acquisition of Porphyrio NV. Porphyrio NV, a leading provider of cloud based intelligent data management software for the poultry industry, will remain a separate company within the Evonik Animal nutrition Business. The ownership of Evonik will bring significant benefits to Porphyrio’s customers with ...
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Fieragricola 2012 Early Bird Discount Offer
Cultivating an International Spirit FIERAGRICOLA is the only major event in Italy ensuring a complete offering of technologies and products in sectors such as agricultural engineering, animal farming, agro-supplies, renewable energy and services for agriculture. The event achieves high media impact and anticipates the needs of the sector by presenting innovative themes and content, creates ...
By Veronafiere
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Better approach to reporting hazardous substances from farm animal waste
EPA is announcing a final rule providing an administrative reporting exemption for air releases of hazardous substances from animal waste at farms. This rule will enable response authorities to better focus their attention on hazardous substance releases that require a response, while reducing reporting burdens on America’s farms. Notifications must still be made to response authorities when ...
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Potters Poultry International wins award from American Humane Association
The award was presented to Potters by Kathi Brock and Will Gillis of the AHA's farm animal program, for their Avitier 125-4 + Avinest. Potters has been making and designing aviary systems for more than 22 years and its latest design is the first aviary system to achieve the seal of approval. Mike Button, export manager for Potters Poultry, said: "It is great accomplishment for a UK ...
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EPA proposes better approach to reporting hazardous substances from farm animal waste
EPA has proposed a rule change to provide an administrative reporting exemption for air releases of hazardous substances -- primarily ammonia and hydrogen sulfide -- from animal waste at farms. EPA is proposing a rule enabling response authorities to better focus their attention on hazardous substance releases that require emergency response while reducing reporting burdens on America’s farms. ...
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Alliance releases report from 2019 Animal Rights National Conference
The Animal Agriculture Alliance released a report today detailing observations from the Animal Rights National Conference, held July 25 through July 28 in Alexandria, Virginia. The event was organized by the Farm Animal Rights Movement and sponsored by Mercy for Animals, The Save Movement, Compassion Over Killing and The Humane League, along with other animal rights extremist groups. ...
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Hontech-Wins Brings Exclusive Agricultural Lighting to Attend EuroTier
As one of the most professional and experienced suppliers of agricultural lighting, Hontech-Wins is responsible for distributing high-performance and high-quality agricultural lighting products, including LED poultry lighting. To fulfill this responsibility, we brought exclusive LED agricultural lighting to attend EuroTier, the world's leading trade fair for professional livestock management and ...
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Measuring how farm animals `feel`
The aim is to reduce stress and pain in livestock and increase not only their wellbeing but also their productivity. “With increased public concern about the welfare of animals, and consumers seeking ‘animal welfare-friendly’ products, Australia’s livestock industries are focused on improving farming practices to meet changing expectations,” CSIRO scientist Dr ...
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FIERAGRICOLA: An increasingly international event covering animal farming, markets, sub-contracting and bio-energy
The VeronaFiere exhibition dedicated to the primary sector is second on a European scale for its cost/contact ratio, immediately behind Agritechnica in Hannover. Fieragricola this year expects more than 250 buyers from 35 countries. All the mainstays of the event are stronger than ever: Agrimeccanica, Zoosystem, Multi-function Exhibition, Agriservice, Bioenergy Expo. Not to forget precision ...
By Veronafiere
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World leaders `have moral obligation to go vegan`
Many of our world leaders have remained almost silent about the UN warning that we have just 12 years to halt a climate catastrophe. That’s why the Million Dollar Vegancampaign offered $1m to charity if Pope Francis chooses to eat only plant-based foods during Lent, and encourages Catholics around the world to do the same. The campaign has so far attracted more than 500 media articles in ...
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Certified Reference Material ERM?-AD482 to identify absence or presence of ruminant material in feed
With the contribution of the JRC, the European Union Reference Laboratory for Animal Proteins (EURL-AP) validated of new DNA-based methods detecting unauthorised proteins from ruminant origin (e.g. beef). This new method has been taken up in EU regulation. For its implementation the JRC now certified the reference material ERM-AD482, allowing the absence or presence testing of ruminant material ...
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Minister ZAIA inaugurates the 109th FIERAGRICOLA - Recovery for consumption and prices. GMO: Open debate
The Minister for Agricultural Policies, Luca Zaia, accompanied by the Under-secretary for Health, Francesca Martini. The keyword, after a difficult 2009 for Italian agriculture, is "optimism". And facts and figures of Fieragricola confirm that sector experts expect a turnaround. Zaia unveiled the New Holland world premiere and (also) spoke about GMO: "I oppose GMO and we will take legal action ...
By Veronafiere
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Wired : For Insect Farming to Work, Scientists Need to Build a Better Bug
For Insect Farming to Work, Scientists Need to Build a Better BugFaster-growing, fatter critters could provide the protein needed to raise more climate-friendly livestock and pets. Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing their way to ...
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Pew Commission calls for better US animal waste treatment
One step beyond her front door, Jayne Clampitt is greeted with the toxic fumes flowing from the roughly 1 million gallons of hog manure stored at her neighbor's farm. She no longer dries her family's laundry outside, her children avoid the nearby polluted stream, and she worries that their shallow drinking well will also be contaminated with toxins. 'We thought there was this unspoken connection ...
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EP wants animal cloning ban extended to offspring and imports
Parliament beefed up the Commission’s initial proposal to ban animal cloning to include the cloning of all farm animals, their descendants and products derived from them, including imports into the EU, in a vote on Tuesday. "The technique of cloning is not fully mature, and in fact, no further progress has been made with it. The mortality rate remains equally high. Many of the animals ...
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Agrosciences on line : launch of the Agreenium-IAVFF Online University
With learning strategies including ever more digital content, the first course from the Agreenium-Institut Agronomique Vétérinaire et Forestier de France (IAVFF, France's Agricultural, Veterinary and Forestry Institute) Online University is now open for subscriptions. Officially launched by three Ministers on Tuesday, February 24, 2015, at the Paris International Agricultural Show ...
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Livestock Scales
How It Works Livestock producers utilize Osborne’s innovative ACCU-ARM Scales for easy, fast and accurate weighing of a variety of farm animals. Our “rock solid,” animal-friendly scales use precision levers to reduce sway and bounce and are completely cable-free. With Osborne’s Scales, the entire operation of weighing is more efficient and less stressful—for both ...
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China launches rural pollution study
The Chinese government has pledged funds to carry out the country's first survey of pollution sources in rural areas, according to state media. Zhang Fengtong, a senior official in the Ministry of Agriculture, told a press conference that the central government has allocated 230m yuan (US$31m) to the survey, which is set to get underway next year. The research will focus on animal, crop and ...
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