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New 5m feed mill gives Harbro the edge over competitors

New 5m feed mill gives Harbro the edge over competitors

Europe 08 Dec 2006

By Dan Buglass THE HEARLD 08/12/2006 Times have been tough for farmers, but the associated supply industries have also been hit hard and many have gone to the wall, especially in the compound feed sector. Familiar names of a generation ago …
EU extends bird flu ban on live bird imports

EU extends bird flu ban on live bird imports

Europe 02 Dec 2006

ASSOCIATED PRESS 02/12/2006 Belgium - The European Union on Friday extended for three months a ban on live bird imports which was imposed a year ago to prevent the spread of bird flu. In a statement, the EU said it needed more time to consi…
Pork industry hit by EU swine fever ruling

Pork industry hit by EU swine fever ruling

Europe 30 Nov 2006

By Corina Mica and Michael Bird THE DIPLOMAT BUHAREST 30/11/2006 Classic Swine Fever Classical Swine Fever is a disease transmitted through direct contact between hogs. In its acute form, five to 15 days after the illness begins, the hog di…
Pork industry hit by swine fever ruling

Pork industry hit by swine fever ruling

Europe 30 Nov 2006

By Corina Mica and Michael Bird THE DIPLOMAT BUHAREST 30/11/2006 Hopes of fattening up the domestic pork industry for export have been set back by an EC decision to vaccinate all the nation's pigs and wild boars Every pig and wild boar …
UK: A turbulent poultry year

UK: A turbulent poultry year

Europe 25 Nov 2006

By Keith Henderson THE JOURNAL 25/11/2006 As we come to the end of 2006, the poultry industry must look back on what has been a turbulent 12 months. The spectre of avian influenza has had many knock-on repercussions that we will probably ha…
EU: pig feed production decrease in 2005

EU: pig feed production decrease in 2005

Europe 24 Nov 2006

24/11/2006 European feed manufacturers produced 1.2% less pig feed in 2005, in comparison to the year before. Altogether 47.3 million tonnes of pig feed were produced. Despite the decrease, pig feed remains the feed sector's number one …
Man dies in animal feed accident

Man dies in animal feed accident

Europe 24 Nov 2006

BBC UK 24/11/2006 A man has died after he became trapped under a pile of animal feed at the back of his lorry. Emergency services were called to the premises of farm feed company Harbro in Inverness at about 0900 GMT. Kenneth Bissett, 56, f…
Mersey plant in £20m US deal for bird flu vaccine

Mersey plant in £20m US deal for bird flu vaccine

Europe 22 Nov 2006

By Tony McDonough DAILY POST 22/11/2006 Novartis's factory in Liverpool is to supply 800,000 extra doses of its H5N1 bird flu vaccine to the US government in a deal worth more than £20m. The Swiss pharmaceutical giant is one of th…
Poultry firm doubles size with farms buy

Poultry firm doubles size with farms buy

Europe 20 Nov 2006

By Kathryn Moore YORKSHIRE POST 20/11/2006 Feed company sells production units: A Yorkshire-based poultry business has completed a major deal which will more than double its size. Ebco (Holdings), based in Bilbrough, North Yorkshire, has ac…
BASF and HELM to start collaboration on animal nutrition products

BASF and HELM to start collaboration on animal nutrition products

Europe 20 Nov 2006

20/11/2006 HELM and BASF have agreed on a long term collaboration in the field of animal nutrition products. BASF supplies HELM with high quality feed additives. HELM will market them to a variety of customers in the different market segmen…
Swine fever spreads in Croatia

Swine fever spreads in Croatia

Europe 17 Nov 2006

AFP 17/11/2006 Some 5,500 pigs will be slaughtered at a farm in eastern Croatia which was hit with a new outbreak of classical swine fever, the worst so far in the country, the agriculture ministry said. "The farm where the presence of swin…
Cargill Starts Construction of Animal Feed Complex in Russia

Cargill Starts Construction of Animal Feed Complex in Russia

Europe 16 Nov 2006

16/11/2006 Cargill has begun construction of an animal feed mill at its Efremov site in the Tula region of Russia, a further investment of US$10 million into the company's production facility. Production is due to commence in 2007 with …
Romania is for new outbreak of bird flu

Romania is for new outbreak of bird flu

Europe 15 Nov 2006

XINHUA NEWS 15/11/2006 Romania is prepared from a strategic viewpoint to combat a new outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus, local epidemiologists were quoted as saying on Tuesday by the national Rompres news agency. After the eradication of …
Price Pressure on Pig Feed

Price Pressure on Pig Feed

Europe 15 Nov 2006

British Pig Executive 15/11/2006 UK - Feed prices are rising and producers coming off contracts could be facing on average an extra £12 a tonne to renew. That equates to as much as 4p per kg dwt according to a feed cost report just pu…
Kiotech to buy feed additive unit Agil from Lawrence for 5.5 mln stg

Kiotech to buy feed additive unit Agil from Lawrence for 5.5 mln stg

Europe 03 Nov 2006

03/11/2006 Biotechnology company Kiotech International PLC said it will buy Agil, the animal feed additives division of Lawrence PLC in a reverse takeover for 5.5 mln stg. Of the 5.5 mln stg, Kiotech will pay 5.25 mln in cash and 0.25 mln v…
EBRD is worried about introduction of quotas for grain export in UkraineEBRD is worried about introd

EBRD is worried about introduction of quotas for grain export in UkraineEBRD is worried about introd

Europe 27 Oct 2006

27/10/2006 European bank for reconstruction and development (EBRD) is worried about introduction of quotas for grain export by Ukraine. According to Kamen Zahariyev, Head of Representative office of EBRD in Ukraine, Ukraine needs to develop…
Ukrainian exporters show much interest in feed maize

Ukrainian exporters show much interest in feed maize

Europe 25 Oct 2006

25/10/2006 Interest of exporters in feed maize is at high level. It should be noticed that if before most exporters restrained their purchases waiting for clarifying of the situation concerning introduction of quotas for export of maize now…
Ukrainian traders can export feed and milling corn without limitations

Ukrainian traders can export feed and milling corn without limitations

Europe 19 Oct 2006

19/10/2006 Quoting for grain export introduced by Ukrainian Government till the end of the current year does not apply to feed and milling corn. As APK-Inform agency found out code UCCFEA (Ukrainian Commodity Classification for Foreign Econ…
Kiotech in talks to acquire Lawrence PLC's Agil

Kiotech in talks to acquire Lawrence PLC's Agil

Europe 13 Oct 2006

By John Gleeson Dow Jones 13/10/2006 Kiotech International PLC said it is in discussions with Lawrence PLC, which may or may not lead to the acquisition of Agil, the trading division of Lawrence PLC which operates in the feed additive marke…
Russia halts poultry purchases from two U.S. states

Russia halts poultry purchases from two U.S. states

Europe 14 Sep 2006

By Lane McConnell ABC NEWS 14/09/2006 Following the diagnose of H5N1 bird flu virus in Maryland and Pennsylvania, Russia has banned imports from the states. Russia is the top consumer of U.S. poultry and the Agriculture Ministry said on Mon…

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