News & Analysis on the Global Animal Feed and Pet Food Industries
Special Edition: Crop Science
A researcher at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) has started a long-term project to improve the yield and characteristics of alfalfa to make it a more attractive animal feed.
Adding corn and canola meal to dairy cattle diets may improve their production, regardless of where feed is given.
US firm, Verdesian Life Sciences, says its new seed treatment aims to improve feed crop yields by improving nitrogen use and boosting plants’ early growth.
Young scientists working in the field of feed probiotics, with a focus on subjects such as nutrition, microbiology or immunity, are the target of the latest Jules Tournut Probiotics Prize.
Despite an upcoming deadline to end the use of some antimicrobials for livestock production purposes, their overall sales have risen in recent years in the US.
US agribusiness giant, Cargill, in a continued drive to expand its animal nutrition business, has acquired UK feed and food formulation technology provider, Format International.
Special Edition: Crop Science
Tracking height traits in sorghum plants may boost develop of better preforming sorghum and offer lessons for improving other feed crops.