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Feed & Livestock Magazine is an international publication focusing on the animal feed and livestock industry in Asia, with extensive coverage of swine and poultry farms, raw materials, feed mills, and food processing in Asean countries.
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1y ago
DSM and CPF (Thailand) have signed an MOU to implement DSM’s recently launched sustainability service Sustell, the first of its kind, holistic animal protein sustainability service that measures and provides real data-based, independent guidance and solutions at the farm level for profitably improving the sustainability of animal protein production.
Royal DSM, a global purpose-led science-based company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CPF (Thailand) with an aim to measure and improve the environmental footprint of animal protein production through the use of DSM’s Intellige ..read more
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Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods) plans to expand the production capacity of cage-free eggs to 20 million in 2022 and prepares to export to Hong Kong. The movement is to meet the rising demand for high animal welfare standard and antibiotic-free products.
Mr. Somkid Wannalukkhee, senior vice president for egg business in Thailand at CP Foods, said the company commits to being a business operation based on humane treatment to animals by raising layer chicken in a cage-free housing system. The effort is along with its global Animal Welfare Policy and to achieve its new sus ..read more
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PVTM, a member of Intelnovation Group is driving feed safety forward by offering natural solutions for deactivating pathogens and branching into new business areas.
A pre-tested and ready-to-install spraying system is prepared for shipping to overseas customers. Also seen in the picture, Dr Tanunt (left) and Vasunt Leelayoova.
Vasunt Leelayoova, Intelnovation Group’s founder, believes that safe feed is the foundation of healthy and profitable livestock production. With this goal, the company decided to focus on solutions for overcoming feed and raw material contamination.
To keep the business ..read more
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1y ago
Annafe Perino, Product Manager, Novus International Southeast Asia and Pacific
In the past 3 months, we have experienced a big surge in prices of raw materials expecially for corn and soybean meal. In a span of five years, the price of soybean meal at the last quarter of 2020 has been the highest so far. The same scenario with corn price which reveals that the price in last quarter 2020 has been the second highest in the last 5 years.
There are several reasons why the prices have gone up and it can be summarized in a simple statement by saying the demand is bullish but the supply is bearish ..read more
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1y ago
In many cases, even though cleaning and disinfecting protocols are followed regularly on farms, diseases are still detected. Fortunately, Better Pharma has developed products and solutions to solve one of the most important issues in livestock farming today.
Biosecurity is the use of procedures or practices to protect livestock from harmful pathogens that cause illness and negatively affect growth performance. Biosecurity principles can prevent disease from entering a farm or spreading from farm to farm.
Biosecurity aims to reduce the probability of introducing (external) pathogens and allowin ..read more
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1y ago
Group GriMaud has begun using genomic selection to improve all-around duck performance, making it the first breeding company to apply a range of new, cutting-edge technologies in duck selection.
Yann Le Pottier
Although Group Grimaud has applied advanced genomic selection tools for layer hens and hogs for many years, it finally decided to apply the technology to accelerate duck genetics development to make duck meat more competitive.
Yann Le Pottier, general manager, said despite the hefty investment, which is over 200,000 euros/pedigree line/year, Group Grimaud is committed to the program to ..read more
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1y ago
Dr Rafael Monleon
Dr Rafael Monleon, business manager for Aviagen Asia Pacific, shares his views on poultry business trends amid the coronavirus pandemic and key changes in animal welfare, management, genetics improvement and technical support. He also addresses hatchery issues, nutrition and the company’s production manual aimed at helping customers fully utilize the birds’ genetic potential.
1. What are strengths of Aviagen’s products?
The performance of our products is currently outstanding, with clear advantages in reproductive output, and a very competitive broiler. Aviagen birds are bred ..read more
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1y ago
Trang Wattana takes up genomic selection to accelerate genetics development as a key in honing productivity.
Rawat Pokawattana
Rawat Pokawattana, managing director and founder, said the company is taking up genomic research projects with Prince of Songkla University in locating sows prolificacy genes and complex productivity traits by investing 500,000 baht in the first year.
Genetics investment gives the highest return compared with investing in housing, management and nutrition, he said.
In the last decade the company applied estimated breeding values (EBVs) technique but now seeing that gen ..read more
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1y ago
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