Zoetis announced the addition of ONE SHOT® BVD to its comprehensive vaccine portfolio. The new vaccine helps provide combined respiratory protection against Mannheimia haemolytica and bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) Types 1 and 2 viruses in ...
Tags: Agriculture, Health, Medicine, vaccine
The Michigan Dairy Ambassadors Program provides youth who are passionate about the dairy industry a unique leadership opportunity by offering trainings in agriculture advocacy and public relations. For many youth, what starts as a love ...
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A competitive edge when managing a beef cattle herd is always important, but never more so than this year with a historically small number of cattle on U.S. farms and ranches and accompanying lofty beef and cattle prices. Producers ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Beef, Cattle
Broiler-Type Eggs Set in the United States Up 1 Percent Hatcheries in the United States weekly program set 209 million eggs in incubators during the week ending March 8, 2014, up 1 percent from a year ago. Hatcheries in the 19 State ...
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Scotland-based potato producer and packer Albert Bartlett and UAE's Al Dahra National Investments have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture (JV) in Abu Dhabi. The new company, Al Dahra Bartlett, will be engaged in potatoes and ...
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Archer Daniels Midland plans to build a facility in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, with an investment of $250m. To be located adjacent to the company's existing site in Campo Grande, the complex will produce a range of ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, beverage
Salt of the Earth, an Israeli salt producer, has launched a new low-sodium sea salt ingredient, designed specifically for food manufacturers. The new ingredient is claimed to help reduce sodium in bakery products, such as bread, breakfast ...
Tags: Salt, Agriculture, Food, bakery products
Transcontinental, a Canada-based media and marketing activation solutions provider, has signed a deal to takeover Capri Packaging, a division of dairy firm Schreiber Foods, in a $133m deal. The acquisition, which is subject to regulatory ...
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An increase in food prices changed dietary patterns of both high and low-income societies in past decades, parallel to an increase of cancer, an expert says. Dr. Sandra Crispim, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sao Paulo, ...
Tags: increase in food prices, changes in food quality, impact meal frequency
Producers looking to take advantage of the growing consumer demand for local foods but having difficulty in finding methods to process their poultry, rabbit and fish for retail sale may want to consider setting up their own processing ...
Tags: consumer demand, Mobile processing units, potential market
The National Pork Board has announced additional funds earmarked for research in the fight against the further spread of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV), which was first identified in the United States last May. The funds – ...
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The Canadian Pork Council (CPC) has been following with great interest developments in trade negotiations between Canada and South Korea and welcome today's news that the terms of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has been finalized. The ...
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Wheat yields pushing 150 bu/ac are very possible with good management and increased nitrogen (N) rates. Recent research clearly shows an interaction between fungicides and nitrogen. But high nitrogen rates immediately raises questions ...
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Even the best medicine has side effects. For years, dairy producers have been selectively breeding their herds to encourage milk production. New insights have confirmed, though, that such efforts to satisfy society's demand for milk, cheese ...
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Ray Archuleta says the earth is sick. It is in this condition, he says, in large measure due to our disregard of natural principles in our approach to agriculture. Archuleta is a conservation agronomist with the Natural Resource ...
Tags: increase soil function, no-till, lower soil temperatures