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U.S. cattle on feed down 4%

U.S. cattle on feed down 4%

Americas 19 Oct 2007

By John Perkins BROWNFIELD 19/10/2007 The United States Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service reports that as of October 1, 2007, the total number of U.S. cattle on feed was 10.967 million head, compared to 11…
Feed costs hurt Canadian hog producers

Feed costs hurt Canadian hog producers

Americas 12 Oct 2007

By Phil Franz-Warkentin ALBERTA FARM EXPRESS 12/10/2007 High feed grain prices are causing some concern for western Canadian hog producers, who are losing money and sending more animals to the U.S. to be fed as a result. "Feed grain costs a…
Farmers Worry About Feed

Farmers Worry About Feed

Americas 09 Oct 2007

09/10/2007 COLUMBIA - Farmers always want their cattle to be as big as possible. But some cattle eat more than they're worth. MU researchers are raising cattle by finding the best eaters. With higher corn prices, feed efficiency is a concer…
Feed mill coming to Comer

Feed mill coming to Comer

Americas 29 Sep 2007

By Zach Mitcham CANWEST 27/07/2007 A feed mill has been approved 5-0 in Comer. Madison County commissioners voted unanimously Monday night to approve a rezoning that will allow Columbia Farms to relocate its feed mill operation in Lavonia t…
Europe Turns to Sorghum Admist Feed Shortages

Europe Turns to Sorghum Admist Feed Shortages

Americas 20 Sep 2007

20/09/2007 Natural calamities are pushing domestic feed grains stocks lower, forcing Europe to increase imports. Europe is facing weather extremities in literally all regions, according to Chris Corry, U.S. Grains Council director of intern…
Canada widens BSE-related feed ban; US still pondering

Canada widens BSE-related feed ban; US still pondering

Americas 13 Sep 2007

13/07/2007 Canada broadened its safeguards against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, yesterday by banning the use of cattle brains, spinal cords, and certain other body parts from all animal feeds, pet foods, and f…
Novus launches equine feed company

Novus launches equine feed company

Americas 10 Sep 2007

10/09/2007 Novus International Inc. announced Monday it formed a new company to produce products for the equine, canine and human health markets. The new company is called Arenus and it will begin to produce and market products in the Unite…
Feed cross-contamination likely cause of BSE case

Feed cross-contamination likely cause of BSE case

Americas 26 Jul 2007

By Kim Covert CANWEST 26/07/2007 The mature dairy cow that became Canada's 10th case of mad cow disease was probably infected by commercial feed that it received after weaning, says a report by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency released W…
Grazing Crop Residue A Good Way to Cut Feed Costs

Grazing Crop Residue A Good Way to Cut Feed Costs

Americas 23 Jul 2007

23/07/2007 It’s only mid-summer, but it’s not too early for beef producers to plan ahead for fall grazing with their cattle herds. In Saskatchewan, we produce massive amounts of straw and chaff each year after combining.  F…
Distillers grains important feed source, NCGA says

Distillers grains important feed source, NCGA says

Americas 23 Jul 2007

23/07/2007 A newly released survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows the livestock industry is increasingly embracing distillers grains as a source of nutrition, the National Corn Growers Association says. Roughly half of t…
Nutraferma picks North Sioux for high-tech animal feed project

Nutraferma picks North Sioux for high-tech animal feed project

Americas 14 Jul 2007

THE JOURNAL 14/0/2007 In a joint venture with a Korean biotechnology firm, Sioux City-based Nutra-Flo Co. will build an $8.76 million high-tech soy fermentation facility in North Sioux City, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds said Wednesday. The…
GFI Ready For Enhanced Feed Ban

GFI Ready For Enhanced Feed Ban

Americas 08 Jul 2007

08/07/2007 Canada's enhanced feed ban takes effect tomorrow and will mean no more specified risk materials from cattle in anything -- whether it be pet foods, or even fertilizers. It's been an up hill battle to get ready for this for everyo…
Ethanol co-products becoming more useful as livestock feed

Ethanol co-products becoming more useful as livestock feed

Americas 03 Jul 2007

By Taryn Dameron AG NEWS 03/07/2007 More livestock operations across the Midwest are feeding their animals distillers dried grains left over from ethanol production. According to National Agriculture Statistics Service numbers from last yea…
Growth in organic dairies tests supply of organic feed

Growth in organic dairies tests supply of organic feed

Americas 08 Jun 2007

By Shannon Dininny ASSOCIATED PRESS 08/06/2007 It comes as no surprise to anyone that the number of organic farms is booming to meet consumer demand for healthy food. In Washington, a state known more for its apples than any other crop, the…
Cuban Animal Feed, Kind to Environment

Cuban Animal Feed, Kind to Environment

Americas 01 Jun 2007

PRENSA LATINA 01/06/2007 Cuban biotechnology seeks solutions to feeding productive animals that are compatible with the environment and human nutrition, Omelio Borroto, director of the Institute of Animal Science, explained Friday. He said …
State leaders tour Wenger's Feed Mill

State leaders tour Wenger's Feed Mill

Americas 15 May 2007

By Patrick Burns INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL 15/05/2007 LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Weary of exorbitant trucking costs, Wenger's Feed Mill Inc. last year decided to end shipments from the Midwest of a vital soybean ingredient that is added to its pre…
Tainted fish meal was sent to U.S.

Tainted fish meal was sent to U.S.

Americas 09 May 2007

By Linda Wilson Fuoco PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE 09/05/2007 Add fish to the growing list of animals that have eaten tainted food. Canadian-made fish meal contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine was exported to fish farms in the Unit…
20 million chickens may have eaten tainted feed

20 million chickens may have eaten tainted feed

Americas 04 May 2007

AP04/05/2007 Federal officials on Friday placed a hold on 20 million chickens raised for market in several states because their feed was mixed with pet food containing an industrial chemical. Three government agencies - the Agriculture Depa…
Kansas State University and AFIA Offer Feed Mill Maintenance Short Course

Kansas State University and AFIA Offer Feed Mill Maintenance Short Course

Americas 30 Apr 2007

30/04/2007 As part of ongoing efforts to effectively respond to feed industry needs, Kansas State University (KSU) and the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) will sponsor a feed manufacturing short course entitled "Feed Mill Maintena…
Critics want tighter rules on animal feed

Critics want tighter rules on animal feed

Americas 30 Apr 2007

By Nichole Monroe Bell CHARLOTTE OBSERVER 28/04/2007 When officials announced last week that more than 6,000 hogs across the country may have inadvertently ingested an industrial chemical through contaminated pet food, consumer advocates we…

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