Tag: farm animals
Global success to reduce antimicrobial consumption in farm animals
Antimicrobials were formerly used in animal production for growth promotion and disease prevention, resulting in high usage levels. Significant measures to reduce antimicrobial use...
Impact of increased animal welfare trends on the animal nutrition industry
Modern animal production is intensive and often presents challenges that stress farm animals. A heightened focus on animal health and well-being provides new opportunities...
“With our minerals, we are promoting healthy living conditions for farm animals”
Imerys’ minerals provide animal feed producers a tool box of functionalities helping them either in the production -anticaking, carriers and binders or as animal...
Heat stress in dairy cows can be mitigated
Modern breeds of farm animals are highly productive, but they have a high basic metabolic rate making them more sensitive to the extreme heat....
Animal science turns to advancing resilience for heat tolerance
Several research groups across the world are researching the challenge of enhancing the resilience of livestock to climatic variability and change. Understanding adaptive mechanisms...
Cargill ranks among top companies on farm animal welfare
Cargill announced that it ranks near the top of 150 companies in the latest Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW) annual report.
Cargill announced...
Companies must move faster to deliver meaningful farm animal welfare impacts
According to the recently released 10th annual BBFAW report, four out of five companies have farm animal welfare policies in place, but the food...
Biomin takes part in €10M research project to improve animal health
Biomin announces participation in €10M research project to improve animal health, welfare through better understanding of gut microbiota interactions.
