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Food security, trade and sustainability were the key topics at the introduction to the Dairy Tech event today (Thursday 7 April). The keynote session on

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A new practical guide to help farmers harness the full potential of fibre from forage, is being launched by Lallemand Animal Nutrition.

February 17, 2021 7:00 am Moves by EU foodservice and manufacturing customers to shun UK cream have already begun to knock butterfat prices in Britain. Speaking as part of a Dairy-Tech seminar held on Tuesday (February 16), industry market analyst Chris Walkland explained many traditional customers of UK cream had been forced to buy elsewhere as a result of Brexit. “The big question is to me will UK prices match the EU ones going forward? I’m not so sure whether they will. We have a big mismatch over cream prices because of Brexit,” he said. Because some of the EU customer base we had b...

February 16, 2021 6:20 am At the recent dairy tech event held by The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF), Sarah Tomlinson a vet based in Derbyshire. Discussed the current pitfalls of the Mycobacterium bovis (TB) testing system currently used in the UK and Ireland. Sarah stated that the tuberculin skin test (also known as the Mantoux tuberculin test) is only at best 80% accurate, meaning that 20% of animals that should test positive don’t. She also stated that the gamma blood test (also known as the interferon-gamma test) misses one in ten animals that should test positive. Sa...