Dutch co-product group Duynie BV has brought together three British-based companies in its portfolio to form Duynie UK, a new co-product supply specialist for the livestock…
Month: January 2015
With PED now confirmed in Ukraine, albeit not by the country’s own veterinary authorities, a discussion on both the lower and higher-pathogenic strains of this destructive…
In the final part of his three-part series on liquid feeding, Steve Stokes of Hampshire Feeding Systems (HFS) looks at strategies for feeding different classes of…
The latest Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) Pig Disease Surveillance Report includes notice of the agency’s first diagnosis of oedema disease in East Anglia for…
Both the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) and Copa Cogeca have spoken out this week on the need for Europe’s supermarkets to be placed under tighter controls…
It was an interesting period over Christmas and New Year with regard to weather and temperature, with many areas experiencing changes from -6C to +8C within…
The rapidly changing climate makes me wonder where we’re heading. What’s happened to the severe winters and the hard frosts? Not that I want to be…
The internet is a wonderful tool for keeping up with developments in our industry. As well as picking up news stories from here in Britain, there’s…
So, now for something completely different . . . For the best part of two weeks, I’ve been holed up on the beautiful Dartington Estate, in…
Russian pork import prices finished last year around 80% above the levels reached in 2013, as the country’s imposition of two import bans during the past…