Reducing climate emissions from livestock while improving food security
Reducing climate emissions from livestock while improving food security and livelihoods is a global challenge. A recent study on manure management policies and practices...
Dietary choline supplementation in dairy cows
Choline, a trimethylated quarternary amine involved in transport of fat from liver, provides labile methyl groups for transmethylation reactions and is required for the...
New sensor system sniffs out mycotoxins in wheat
The quality of grass herbage and grass silage significantly affects enteric methane production of dairy cattle, according to new research of Wageningen UR in...
New sensor system sniffs out mycotoxins in wheat
Mycotoxins - produced by fungi contaminate about 25 % of food crops worldwide, according to the latest estimates. Detecting contamination quickly and reliably is...
Wanda-new, low-cost cattle feeding material
The Punjab Livestock and Dairy Development Board have developed a new, low-cost cattle feeding material, Wanda, made from maize cobs and would offer training...
Jatropha and its merit as animal feed
Climate change and predicted shortages of fossil fuels present major challenges. Currently, biofuel production is from agricultural crops grown primarily on arable land. Conflict...
Layer feed efficiency improved by red algae
December 2014: Research is ongoing to identify areas where algae can improve animal performance, health and welfare.
Algae (also called seaweeds) are considered an important...
Insect meal could be the future of animal feed
The costs of conventional feed resources are high, and their availability in the future will be limited. Insect rearing could be a part of...
Scientists just found a way to make GMO’s much safer
US scientists say they have taken the first step towards making "safer" GMOs that cannot spread in the wild, using synthetic biology.
An errant GMO...
