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July 16, 2013

16/07/2013: Hovis to close its Barry flour mill; livestock feeding habits; GMOs in Europe

Premier Foods, the United Kingdom's largest food manufacturer and producer of Hovis bread and Mr Kipling cakes, has revealed plans to shut a 109-year-old flour mill with the loss of 43 jobs.

Premier announced their Hovis Rank at Barry Docks, South Wales, is set to close by the end of October this year.

The mill was built in 1904 by the Hovis-Bread Flour Company – Britain’s largest flour miller, which has since been renamed Rank Hovis.

The Premier business, which is struggling under a near UK£1 billion debt hopes to save around UK£20 million this year through the bread business restructure and general cost cutting. 
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A new system to monitor livestock feeding habits has been developed by agricultural engineers at the the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
 
According to the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Tami Brown-Brandl and Roger Eigenberg, scientists at the Roman L. Hruska US Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Nebraska, designed software and hardware that uses radio-frequency identification technology to monitor daily variations in feeding behavior.

The technology monitors the amount of time each animals spends eating, the number of times the animal feeds and the timing of those events,
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A study by Futuragra, supported by scientists, has reported that 55 percent of Italians think research on GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in Italy should continue.

A 2012 study by Coldiretti, an Italian agricultural organisation, showed that 71 percent of the interviewees considered GMOs less safe than traditional products.

A lot of the meat and dairy products in Italy come from animals that have eaten GMOs.
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