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Study: Rubber mats in feedlots improve cattle growth

Cattle housed on rubber mats grow faster, but benefits disappear in overcrowded feedlots, a university trial finds.

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Safer and Smarter Animal Feed Production

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California judge delays Prop 12 implementation

A judge in California has ruled the implementation of the state's Proposition 12 law will be delayed 180 days.

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Massachusetts governor delays pork production measure

The National Pork Producers Council applauded a compromise measure that delays implementation of a state ballot initiative to prohibit the sale of pork that doesn’t meet certain production standards.

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Maple Leaf: All sow barns will be open housing this year

Company will complete transitioning all breeding sows in company-owned barns to its advanced open sow housing system by the end of 2021.

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Animal Feed Manufacturers

EU ag update: Bold ambitions to balance nature, farming

Farming is crucial to the EU economy, but strict environmental rules, regenerative ag and animal welfare are high on the political agenda.

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NPPC, AFBF file Prop 12 appeal to Supreme Court

In a petition to the court, the groups argue that California’s Proposition 12 violates the Commerce Clause and will raise prices on pork without any improvement to food safety or animal welfare

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Trace amounts of antibiotics might worsen pig health

Pilot study suggests feed, water or soil contaminated with trace amounts of antibiotics might damage gut health and prolong infectious disease in pigs.

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Evonik proves ecological advantages of its feeding solutions

Evonik releases info on its feeding solutions

Animal Nutrition

COVID-19 study reveals which diets best slow pig growth

Study finds multiple theoretical diets can slow pig growth when producers are in a pinch, but some methods outshine others.

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Guido Grassi joins German animal welfare pioneers

Guido Grassi to join German animal welfare pioneers

China International Animal Husbandry Expo 2021

China International Animal Husbandry Expo (CAHE) held from May 18-20 but in different cities every year, is the […]

Animal Health & Veterinary

FDA proposes to reclassify 17 antibiotics as ‘critical’

New criteria would increase the number of antibiotics considered critical to human health, drawing praise from some and criticism from others.

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