African swine fever: transmission via feed unlikely

International research results on ASF viruses published

31-May-2024 - African swine fever (ASF) continues to spread in Europe and other parts of the world. Food also plays a role in this. If unheated food or leftovers from infected animals are fed to uninfected animals, the virus can spread to previously ASF-free regions and thus also to domestic pig herds. As the ...

Challenges and future prospects for the pig industry

08-May-2024 - Stefan Müller from Suisseporcs is convinced that Swiss pork will continue to be eaten in the future despite the downward trend in consumption and the challenges facing the industry. The breeding and producer association tracks trends using various monitoring methods and uses them to develop ...

Biodegradable materials - packaged in beer

28-Feb-2024 - Empa researchers have extracted nanocellulose from a beer brewery waste product and processed it into an aerogel. The high-quality material could be used in food packaging. In the beginning was the mash. The mixture of malt and water is stirred for several hours and gently heated. The resulting ...

AI-driven nutritional assessment of seed mixtures enhances sustainable farming practices

19-Jan-2024 - Cultivating seed mixtures for local pastures is an age-old method to produce cost-effective and balanced animal feed, enhancing agricultural autonomy and environmentalfriendlinessin line with evolving European regulations and organic consumer demands. Despite its benefits, farmers face adoption ...

10 more years for glyphosate

What the agent is all about

17-Nov-2023 - Glyphosate is used in large quantities in agriculture to combat weeds. This will remain the case in the EU. Environmental associations and the scientific community have criticized the product. But what is it all about? How does glyphosate work? The weedkiller has an effect on almost all green ...

From the trough to the plate - digitally calculated

Computer program "ConTrans" estimates how much of an undesirable substance is transferred from animal feed to food

08-Nov-2023 - How long does it take for an undesirable substance in animal feed to appear in animal food? And how high is its content then? When can we expect meat and eggs to be "clean" again, i.e. harmless to health, after switching to uncontaminated feed? These are key food safety issues for risk ...

FarmInsect raises oversubscribed €8m Series A to commercially scale its insect farming technology

End-to-end, modularized solution for decentralized production of insects as sustainable feed

02-Nov-2023 - German insect technology company FarmInsect announces the close of an oversubscribed €8m Series A funding round. The round was led by Sandwater, a climate-tech venture capital firm based in Oslo, alongside Bayern Kapital’s Growth fund, the Minderoo Foundation’s Strategic Impact Fund, and the ...

Larvae instead of soy - insects as a substitute in cattle feed?

25-Oct-2023 - Insects as feed for livestock - for research institutions and startups, this topic has a future - especially with a view to sustainability. And the agricultural industry is also open to the alternative form of food. "Beneficial insects are basically capable of converting unusable biomass or food ...

5 ways we’re fighting factory food waste with teamwork and technology

On International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, we check in with our factory frontline for the latest progress report on our fight against food waste.

03-Oct-2023 - No one sets out to waste food. Not at home. Not in factories. But the sad truth is that nearly a third of food created for human consumption goes to waste. And a lot of that happens in food production. “It feels wrong to be wasting food in a world where nearly 10% of our population is still ...

Strategies for organic chicken farming

Animal friendly and sustainable

21-Jul-2023 - In sustainable agriculture, organic livestock farming is becoming increasingly important. Consumers are increasingly attaching importance to particularly animal-friendly husbandry - also in the case of chickens. Poultry farming faces various challenges in this regard: On the one hand, organic ...