NOBLE FOODS has bought organic feed specialist Hi Peak Feeds. Hi Peak is the UK’s largest 100% organic manufacturer of feeds, blends, minerals and speciality products. See also: Wynnstay acquires Humphrey Feeds & Pullets The firm has a mill at Killamarsh, in...
TWO agri-tech firms exposed to the poultry sector have won a share of UK-Canada government funding aimed at helping agriculture meet its net-zero targets. In partnership with Canadian firm TrustBIX Inc, the UK’s Arden Biotech has been awarded £248,000 to embark...
MICROBIOTA sampled from the cloaca of chickens has been linked with that in the caecum, new research has found, raising the possibility of assessing gut health of birds while alive, rather than post-mortem. In the 2017 study, recently published in the Poultry Science...
LOW LEVELS of mycotoxins in poultry feed negatively affect broiler health and performance, a new paper has suggested. It is the first longitudinal study of its kind to examine how low levels of mycotoxins – below EU regulatory thresholds – impact broilers. See also:...
