Arla Foods amba increases February milk price
Arla Foods amba is increasing its on-account milk price to its 13,500 global farmer owners, of which 2,800 are British dairy farmers. The one euro cent increase will take effect from 3 February 2014. The boards of Arla Milk Link (AML) and Arla Milk Cooperative (AMCo) are meeting, week commencing 27 January, to confirm the […]
BASF Animal Nutrition: new focus on efficient livestock feeding
The campaign, which refers to BASF’s corporate “We create chemistry” strategy, shows how the company addresses future challenges in livestock feeding: with efficient solutions for balanced growth. Quality, sustainability and partnerships are BASF’s key ingredients for achieving efficiency gains for its customers. One example is its Natugrain® TS enzyme product, which improves feed conversion in […]
Efficiency central to meeting future beef demand BeefLink farmers hear
Genetic and feed efficiency will be central to ensuring UK beef farmers can meet the growing domestic and global demand for British Beef, more than 300 Asda/ABP BeefLink farmers heard at last week’s producer group meeting, Ludlow. No matter where in the UK beef is produced it must be done as efficiently as possible, said […]
Arla expects to serve 25 billion glasses of milk in 2014
Milk facts: This staggering number of 250ml glasses, more specifically 25,297,087,378, will come from Arla’s fresh, UHT and milk powder operations around the world. This amount represents a bit over half of Arla’s entire milk production expected for 2014. Just to get an idea of how much milk that is, lining up all the glasses […]
RPA releases December milk production figures
The United Kingdom wholesale milk deliveries totaled 1,150.7 million litres in December, figures published by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) show. At the same time last year this figure was 1,039.2 million litres. The cumulative total for the year is now 10,151.1 million litres. At the same point in 2012 this figure was 9,825.3 million […]
Over 2,800 British dairy farmers now co-owners of Arla Foods amba
The circa 2,800 British farmer owners supply ninety five per cent of Arla UK’s milk pool and are part of the European network of 13,500 farmer owners across Denmark, Germany, the UK, Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden. Jonathan Ovens, AMCo chairman and British farmer director of Arla Foods amba, said: “We have been working towards becoming […]
The £7m Badger Cull – shock figures reveal each dead badger cost £4000+
Culling badgers in England during 2013 cost £7.3million, according to official sources and FOI requests – which works out at £4121 per dead badger. Wildlife charity Care for the Wild has pieced together the costs of the cull from various sources to come up with the ‘final reckoning’ of the cull, which dramatically failed to […]
NADIS January Parasite Forecast
Weight loss and reduced performance due to liver fluke disease in housed and out-wintered beef cattle is likely to be reaching peak levels in the New Year, according to the January NADIS Parasite Forecast, sponsored by Merial Animal Health. “Information on liver fluke damage should be requested from slaughterhouses to give an indication of the […]
Nominations now open for coveted Animal Welfare Awards
Now in its third year, the awards recognise volunteers, charity workers and veterinary professionals who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to supporting and improving animal welfare around the world. Historically, the awards have recognised welfare in companion animals, but with the addition of the new Farm Animal Welfare Award, with support from the National Animal Disease […]
