LivestockIreland's agriculture minister says removing internal slurry agitation points stays a condition of TAMS 3 building grants, and points farmers to 60% safety grant aid for the work.
LivestockAHDB says European finished pig prices have firmed after summer heat cut supply, but higher production, weaker Chinese demand and African swine fever may keep the market difficult into 2027.
LivestockA phytogenic feed additive built on the medicinal plant plantain by Bangladesh Agricultural University has improved omega-3 fatty acids, HDL and iron in broiler meat, and G-2 seed is now being produced in the country.
LivestockA study by researchers at the University of Connecticut and Bangladesh Agricultural University, based on five years of data from the BAU dairy farm, finds the real carbon footprint of milk on Bangladeshi farms is 27 percent lower than earlier estimates.
LivestockNorth Dakota Senator John Hoeven told the state's cattle producers that the Senate farm bill carries his provisions to cap prairie dog colonies on federal grazing land and widen livestock disaster payments.
LivestockMore than 1,000 responses to the first review of Australia's Cattle Transaction Levy in two decades asked for clearer evidence of what the $5 levy delivers, with biosecurity the leading call for new investment.
LivestockKarl Stanley's family piggery near Ōpunake is adding a multi-million-dollar shed for 1,000 grower pigs and reworking its farrowing units to meet New Zealand welfare rules due by the end of 2035.
Sharabangla Down Products in Akkelpur, Joypurhat, collects about 22 tonnes of duck feathers a month from across Bangladesh and ships processed down and feather to China, Vietnam and Taiwan.
LivestockAPHA has confirmed the virus, a relative of Schmallenberg that causes fever, diarrhoea, lower milk yields and abortions in cattle, in Jersey and warned of possible further spread in north-west Europe.
AgrotechAn automated biotelemetry system built by Stellenbosch University researcher Megan le Roux records night-time video of black-backed jackals on farms and uploads it without human help, to study a predator culling has failed to control.
EnvironmentAmanda and Adrian Currie, accountants who bought a 750-hectare sheep and beef farm in 2012, now spray home-bred microbes, rest paddocks and use dung beetles instead of buying fertiliser.
A training day at Taaibosch Piggery brought NSPCA inspectors, the pork producers' body SAPPO and vets together; group housing and batch traceability won ground, but farrowing crates and tail docking remain in dispute.
New Zealand's Rural Co-ordination Group says silage is very tight and transport is stretched, and urges farmers to plan feed early and seek support.
