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It can be dangerous to assume cause and effect

In Rose Acre Farms’ battle over a new NPDES permit with the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, state regulators have chosen to follow EPA guidance and assume that high nutrient levels in waters outside of the layer farm are caused by emissions from poultry house ventilation fans. The fact that air removed from the poultry houses contains some fraction of ammonia and dust doesn’t prove that these substances leave the farm and make it into nearby bodies of water in quantities large enough to cause the nutrient levels that trouble the regulators.

Animal Nutrition

Fish meal prices to remain prohibitively high for pig, poultry feeds

Back in 2001, fish meal was about $480 per metric ton. This year it has exceeded $2,000 and there is absolutely no indication it will ever get any cheaper anytime soon.

Poultry Confidence Index shows continued optimism in poultry industry

Respondents to the Poultry Confidence Index survey remained optimistic about lower grain prices, restrained production and higher beef prices, continuing the positive outlook from the previous quarter.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition subsidiary Microbial Developments hires business development manager

Lallemand Animal Nutrition subsidiary Microbial Developments Limited appointed Jonathan Harrison as Aviguard business development manager, effective October 1.Aviguard is an avian competitive-exclusion product that aids the rapid establishment of normal gut flora in day-old chicks, thereby minimizing colonization by transient pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, E. coli and Clostridium perfringens.

Crop tour results in lowered forecasts for corn and soybean yields

Chip Flory, editor, Pro Farmer, and crop analyst, presented the results of Pro Farmer's 21st annual crop tour during the Pro Farmer/WATT Grain & Meat Outlook webinar. He said that as a result of late planting caused by wet spring weather in the Corn Belt, much of the corn and the soybean crops are at immature stages for late August and will require several weeks of good growing conditions to reach their respective yield potentials.

Preventing broiler foot-pad dermatitis with nutrition

Broiler foot-pad contact dermatitis (also known as pododermatitis) remains a production and welfare problem for the worldwide broiler industry as it reduces profitability and causes suffering to birds. In fact, regulations exist in several European countries that try to control this problem by reducing stocking density where broiler foot-pad dermatitis remains a chronic issue.

Maple Leaf Foods to sell Rothsay rendering and biodiesel business

Maple Leaf Foods has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Rothsay, its rendering and biodiesel business, to Darling International. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close by the end of 2013.

How to increase egg weight through hen nutrition

Egg weight remains a quality factor in certain markets, worldwide, and especially where eggs are sold and bought fresh. Controlling egg weight can be a difficult exercise as several factors are implicated.

The future of poultry nutrition: 1:1 feed conversions by 2025?

In the recent past, the goal of an average broiler complex was 2:2:42, which meant growing a two kilogram bird (4.4 pounds), with a feed conversion of 2:1, in 42 days. With continued genetic advances, broiler producers will be able to reach that same weight with just one kilogram of feed, probably by 2025.

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Feed Ingredients

Phytase, trace mineral premixes in broiler diets

Trace mineral premixes have not escaped scrutiny in periodic poultry nutrition program reviews.

What the Veterinary Feed Directive means for the poultry industry

The debate of antibiotic use in animal agriculture revolves around the concept that antibiotic usage in food animals may induce antibiotic resistance in bacteria that may be transmitted from food animals to humans via the consumption of contaminated food products of animal origin. This has been a subject of scientific and public policy debate for years. Public health advocacy groups, consumer groups, and even members of Congress have actively joined the public discussion.

Senate passes farm bill on 66–27 vote

The U.S. Senate on June 10 passed a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill on a bipartisan 66-27 vote. The bill expands government subsidies for crop insurance, rice and peanuts while making small cuts to food stamps.

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