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Feed Changes Cut Environmental Impacts of Pig Farming
2014-03-06 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - A new study has established a clear role for speciality feed ingredients for reducing the environmental impact of poultry and pig production with low-protein diets and the addition of phytase.
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Climate change puts ancestral farming indicators under stress Bolivia's highlands
2014-03-02 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For centuries, farmers in the fragile ecosystems of the high Andes have looked to the behavior of plants and animals to figure out what crops to grow and when. If reeds dried up in the late summer, rainless weather lay ahead, they believed. If the Andean fox made a howling appearance, abundant rains were thought sure to come. But increasingly erratic weather that scientists attribute to global warming is rendering their age-old methods less reliable, endangering harvests in a region where life...
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Consumer Pressure Remains on Retailers to Back British Farming
2014-02-26 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - The Government must review its flooding and coastal defence policies and commit more money into helping to reduce further risks to the British countryside, the NFU said today.
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Consumer Pressure Remains on Retailers to Back British Farming
2014-02-25 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Retailers should listen to their customers and show their support for British farming by stocking more British food, NFU President Peter Kendall said today.
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Farming Weathers Recession to Deliver for Nation’s Economy
2014-02-25 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Farming is delivering for the nation’s economy and bucking the trend as one of the few success stories during the recession, a new NFU report has revealed today (Tuesday).
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