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Managing the animal feed industry comes with its own set of challenges. Effective planning, monitoring, and management of animal cycles and flocks are key to success. In this post, we’ll explore how an industry-specific ERP system can streamline these processes, ensuring that your operations run smoothly, customer satisfaction remains high, and your financial performance ...
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SIGMADAF CLARIFIERS has supplied DAF-FPAC25 flotation equipment and an ACAF-25 grease separator for a slaughterhouse. These two types of equipment are not only for the slaughterhouse but also are part of the farm's wastewater treatment facilities. ...
For example: an animal feed company in the Netherlands might import soybeans from Brazil, or a German slaughterhouse might sell meat product to the U.K. market. As a lot of ingredients and end-products are being moved through international shipping companies (either by ship, truck, plane,…), keeping track of shipping operations is an absolute must for any organization. ...
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Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) announced AOAC has validated NeoSeek™ for STEC, a proprietary testing platform that determines the genetic composition of bacteria in a food sample. The newly validated test detects and identifies seven Shiga toxin-producing strains of E. coli (STEC) known to cause severe human illness. The AOAC’s validation means that NeoSeek for STEC can now be ...
The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) is calling on all farmers, supply chain businesses, and agricultural professionals to make a submission to the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into the Impact of Animal Activism before it closes in two weeks. “This Inquiry is a chance for farmers and supply chain businesses to tell the Government how illegal trespass, interfering with businesses, ...
DISTRESSED farmers are urging state and federal lawmakers to crack down on bullying against regional communities amid safety fears sparked by vegan protests across Australia. Peak dairy farmer group Australian Dairy Farmers (ADF) has called for all state governments to beef up trespass laws to include imprisonment and a minimum fine equal to the cost of police intervention. “It is ...
There is one exception for animals killed at slaughterhouses in a manner in keeping with religious rites. Several methods can be used to render the animal unconscious, including electrical stunning, mechanical stunning or through the use of gas. ...
Foot and Mouth disease has never completely disappeared. Although it has been almost 20 years since the last major outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in the UK, which cost the industry more than £8 Billion, it does not mean that the disease is not still a very real risk to the economy. This August the first outbreak since 2001 in the UK was identified at an abattoir in Brentwood in Essex. ...
Developing Agricultural Projects (2003) Ltd. will plan and set up extension for "Ordabasy Kus" LLP slaughterhouse, the extension will include elements for air chilling line, Set of cooling equipment for air chilling room and Set of cooling equipment for shock freezer ...
The aim of this session, featuring international animal behavior and welfare experts from INRA, was to better understand factors affecting animal well-being from the farm to the slaughterhouse, why it is important to consider animal welfare and how to assess it. ...
Today, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Berkeley Food Institute (BFI) celebrate four remarkable leaders who are advancing sustainable food and agriculture at the sixth annual Growing Green Awards. Chosen from hundreds of nominations submitted across the country by a renowned panel of judges, the 2014 winners are changing the way America eats and farms. They have helped ...
The governments of Canada and Ontario are helping the pork industry step up measures to contain the spread of the porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus. Ontario is providing $2 million to help Ontario Pork support industry-wide investments to improve biosecurity measures at critical points across the province, such as assembly yards and truck washing stations. Biosecurity remains the best tool ...
Most calves are born and raised here, but are finished and processed in states like Texas or Oklahoma, as there's only one large slaughterhouse in Florida at the moment. Despite ranking 10th nationally in the number of cattle, Florida ships the majority of them - 700,000 feeder calves - to other states. ...
Robinson Odong, Frank Kansiime, John Omara and Joseph Kyambadde of Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, investigated a range of macrophyte plants grown in so-called experimental mesocosms to see which if any might be able to clean up waste water from slaughterhouses. They hoped the plants would absorb toxic matter from the effluent through their roots as they grow, leading to ...
Inhalation of the bacteria is also often responsible for a significant percentage of cases in slaughterhouse employees. We hope this new online video helps to enlighten people about this dangerous microbial ...
Major Glynwood programs include Keep Farming™ and the Slaughterhouse Initiative, which launched the first modular, mobile slaughterhouse in the US in April 2010 in Stamford, NY. ...
Glynwood, a non-profit organization in the Hudson Valley whose mission is to save farming, along with its affiliate Local Infrastructure for Local Agriculture [LILA], have launched a mobile, modular slaughterhouse that is the first of its kind. Currently docked in Delaware County, NY, the Modular Harvest System [MHS](TM) is an innovative, next-generation approach to the humane ...
In response to a Defra discussion paper titled, “Ensuring the UK’s food security in a changing world”, Patrick Holden, Soil Association director, said: “Credit to Hilary Benn for joining the debate that has been live amongst far-sighted individuals and food and farming groups for years. But the dead-hand of the Treasury is still visible on the document – with its outdated economic mantra of the ...
The European Commission has adopted a proposal that will facilitate the efficient management of animal by-products, while preserving at the same time the current high levels of protection against risks to public and animal health and the environment. Thousands of slaughterhouses, farms and dairy plants across the EU produce more than 15 million tonnes of animal by-products every ...