Ministers meet at FAO to discuss role of commodity markets
FAO Director-General urges a review of market governance institutions to boost voice of smallholders.
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World Nutrition Forum: Dramatic change needed for sustainability
Top minds from academia, business and the NGO sectors gathered to discuss the future of animal production and sustain:ability at the BIOMIN-sponsored World Nutrition Forum 2014 in Munich.
EU research turning food waste into feed
The NOSHAN project will turn food waste – in particular fruit, vegetables and dairy – into animal feed, at low cost and, while keeping energy consumption low.
Dietary crude protein reduction and AA supplementation affects tissue fatty acid composition in pigs
Fatty acid composition of pork lean and fat may be altered by reducing dietary CP and supplementing AA.
The use of organic trace minerals in sow diets
The provision of trace minerals at the correct level and in their organic form is essential for the modern hyper-prolific sow: they have been shown to increase litter size, the quality of the piglet at birth and weaning and weaning weight and to reduce sow lameness and premature culling.
European Union: bumper EU-28 cereal harvest this year
Copa-Cogeca released final EU-28 cereals estimates for the 2014/15 marketing year, showing a bumper crop up 6.1% on last years levels.
EFSA: GMO Analysis software for comparative assessment
The user-friendly program, which can be downloaded free of charge from EFSA’s website.
Anterior teats secrete higher volumes of colostrum than the posterior
Anterior teats appear to contain more IgA and IgG than the posterior ones in sows.
FAO: Good harvests and ample stockpiles continue to drive international food prices down
Food markets are more stable and prices for most agricultural commodities are sharply lower than they have been in recent years.
The risks of high inclusion of wheat-corn DGGS not be completely alleviated by formulating diets on the basis of NE and SID AA systems
High inclusion of wheat-corn DDGS reduces growth performance and ATTD of energy in growing pigs.
Brazil: increase in the cereals harvest expected
According to the last estimates of the CONAB, the production of cereals in Brazil will reach 195.46 million tonnes: a growth by 3.6% with respect to the previous year.
The production of cereals in Latin America and the Caribbean will keep high
The production of cereals in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 2014/15 season will keep high, exceeding 220 million tonnes, although it will be 1.4% lower than in the previous season.
Bacillus licheniformis and Sodium Butyrate in weanling pigs against Salmonella
Bacillus licheniformis and Sodium Butyrate may reduce the colonization of Salmonella in piglets.
What might we be feeding pgs in 2020: Insects may be the answer
Innovation Conference 2014 - Mick Hazzledine talking about "What might we be feeding pigs in 2020".
The importance of the sow's feed intake and the weaned piglet's weight
The most productive farms are not always the best. We must also bear in mind the weaned piglet's weight and the sow's feed intake.
Phenomenal feed efficiency in newly-weaned pigs: sign of health problems?
The factor that is completely ignored is that newly weaned piglets develop edema; they retain water in their tissues above what is normal and this explains the abnormal gain of the piglet in the first days after weaning.