A livestock feed supplement contaminated with human faeces is being blamed for an outbreak of parasite infection in a cattle feedlot in northwest NSW.

Biology - Other

Mar 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

Murdoch University researchers are leading a project to develop a salt-tolerant perennial crop capable of filtering fish farm waste water while providing feed for livestock.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 21, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 2

(Phys.org)—Climate change poses a major challenge to humanity's ability to feed its growing population. But a new study of sorghum, led by Stephen Kresovich and Geoff Morris of the University of South Carolina, ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 03, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 12 |

While consumers will see increases in the prices of meat, eggs and dairy products as a result of this year's drought, they won't see its effects nearly as much as farmers, according to an agricultural economist ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Aug 10, 2012 not rated yet 0

Some of the key safety nets that benefit crop farmers dealing with this year’s scorching drought won’t help livestock producers who have been saddled with high feed costs and growing uncertainty, ...

Biology - Other

Aug 09, 2012 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool are working with international partners to develop new forage crop for the hot and dry climate of regions such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 27, 2012 3.5 / 5 (2) 0

Human domestication of soybeans is thought to have first occurred in central China some 3,000 years ago, but archaeologists now suggest that cultures in even earlier times and in other locations adopted the ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 17, 2011 not rated yet 0 |

There may be a natural solution to the mystery of how small amounts of a banned drug that disrupts thyroid function and plumps up livestock gets into their bodies — and the bodies of humans, scientists are reporting. ...

Chemistry - Other

Jun 15, 2011 not rated yet 0

A two-year study by a Texas AgriLife Research team in Amarillo has helped bring a new product to market that could allow the cattle feeding industry to realize efficiencies in mills and more weight on cattle, according to ...

Biology - Other

Jun 10, 2011 not rated yet 0

David Grewell flipped on the augers that carry corn from a truck to a biorefinery.

Technology - Other

Apr 18, 2011 not rated yet 0

An increased interest in biofuel production and a growing need to find cost-effective livestock feedstuff alternatives has led University of Illinois researchers to further evaluate the use of glycerin in ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 19, 2011 not rated yet 3

(AP) -- Livestock feed producers must face stricter controls and Germany and other EU nations must have better, more centralized dioxin monitoring, German officials proposed Monday after high dioxin levels ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Jan 10, 2011 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- Germany froze sales of poultry, pork and eggs from more than 4,700 farms Friday to stem the spread of food contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin, as fears grew that farmers could have been using ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Jan 07, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0