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January 15, 2014

15/01/14: New! GFMT article: FEED FOCUS: Animal feeding in the future: reaching genetic

In this article, Aidan Connolly, vice president, Alltech Inc., and Dr Alexis Kiers, poultry health consultant, Washington DC, USA look at the genetic potential of animal feeding through smarter nutrition.

In the last decade, animal protein production has faced all-time record high commodities prices, the occurrence of serious diseases such as avian influenza (e.g. H7N9), porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED), food scares, salmonella in dairy farming and campylobacter in chickens. Each of which is related to the increased intensification of farming, but can be mostly attributed to authorities' ability to analyse for contaminents at even lower levels. Indeed, the ability to detect...
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FEED FOCUS: Animal feeding in the future: reaching genetic
potential through smarter nutrition?
 

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