After “a lifetime” in the animal agriculture industry, and more than 18 years at the North American Renderers Association (formerly National Renderers Association), Dr. David L. Meeker, Ph.D., M.B.A., NARA’s senior vice president, and director of research for the Fats and Research Foundation, is retiring at the end of the year. Dr. Meeker previously served […]
The U.S Department of Agriculture is forecasting Brazil chicken meat exports will rise by 4% in 2023 on firm demand in key markets and production challenges by key competitors. Highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in North America and Europe, rising energy costs in the EU, and production disruptions in the Ukraine have decreased competitors’ exportable […]
The NSW Government recognises beekeepers in surveillance zones have also been adversely financially impacted by the Varroa mite response. Click to check the original article.
Steer prices were as much as $150 a head dearer during the Maitland store cattle sale. Click to check the original article.
While droughty areas or corners in cornfields can raise concern about potential nitrates when grazing residue, one must also be aware of black nightshade in your corn residue that you are grazing or planning to graze. If these fields have too much black nightshade, be careful; it might be toxic. Black nightshade is common in […]
Forming just one of 17 houses within the village of Fittleton, Fittleton House is an elegant home where good taste and fine architecture meet. Red-bricked, sashed-windowed and pleasingly symmetrical, Fittleton House is, from the outside, everything good about Georgian architecture. The seven-bed former rectory is just as lovely internally, too, where tall ceilings, well-proportioned rooms […]
Axiota Animal Health, a global animal health company based in Colorado, announced this week a development and licensing agreement with Resilient Biotics, a North Carolina-based company pioneering new microbiome-based animal products using advanced multi-omic approaches, data science, and in vitro screening technologies. The agreement grants Axiota exclusive global rights to Resilient Biotics’ proprietary treatment of […]
The Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, a part of the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, has developed a new test for two major blood-borne diseases in cattle. The laboratory’s Molecular Research and Development section, under the leadership of Jianfa Bai, clinical professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, has developed a unique polymerase chain […]
Charles Rolls predicted the rise of electric cars some 122 years ago, and while it might have taken a little longer than he’d have expected, the Rolls-Royce Spectre has finally been unveiled to the world. It’s a curiosity of motoring history that the electric car was invented long before the petrol-engined car. A Scot named […]
Australia looks likely to join more than 100 countries around the world, including the EU, the US, and Indonesia pledge a 30 per cent global cut in methane emissions by 2030. The Opposition says it will ‘put an end to the BBQ’, and drive up prices, but will it be that bad? We talk to […]
Max Armstrong shares insight from Howard G. Buffett who has taken an interest in immigration policy, conservation and what’s happening in Ukraine. Buffett’s foundation has been spending money in Ukraine to provide equipment for those farmers. Max shares a look at some of the equipment provided for those war-torn farmers. Buffett’s push sidetracked equipment headed […]
Affected grain crops include sunflower, sorghum, canola and safflower. Click to check the original article.