To prevent challenges such as disruption to food supply chains from a pandemic like Covid-19 or other public health sanitary crisis, a key learning for the EU feed manufacturing sector is to have permanent crisis management capacity in place - at company level, at the national association level and at the European level.

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Key learnings from Covid-19 for the EU feed sector

In our latest Feed Matters podcast instalment, we talk to Brian Philpot, CEO of AgAmerica, about the effect of Covid-19 on the US agriculture industry.

The economic impact of Covid-19: Time for the US ag sector to play offense

As pressure increases to move towards a more ecological or circular agriculture system, an expert outlines how dairy farming, particularly large-scale US operations, can become more sustainable.

What does a long-term sustainable dairy system look like?

Following a challenging start to the year, a US based grain safety program seek to reduce injuries and fatalities in the industry through training and education.

Training initiative seeks to curb US grain industry fatalities

In the latest instalment of Feed Matters, FeedNavigator’s podcast series, we talk to Steven Read, chief operating officer, ForFarmers UK, to hear how the company is navigating a trading landscape utterly changed by the outbreak of COVID-19 globally.

ForFarmers talks feed production and logistical efficiency during the coronavirus crisis

Improving facility, product registration and renewal processes and ending ingredient bans were top priorities for the AFIA during trade deal negotiations with China, says expert.

US trade deals spell change for the feed industry

The revised trade agreement negotiated by the US, Mexico and Canada is expected to improve provisions on sanitary and phytosanitary measures and reduce non-trade barriers, says expert.

Declan Billington, chief executive of John Thompson & Sons Ltd, Northern Ireland’s largest animal feed processor, debriefs on this in the latest episode of our podcast series, Feed Matters.

What is the likely post-Brexit scenario for feed businesses in Northern Ireland?

US dairy producers are facing several challenges as the industry shifts production regions and consolidates, but steadying feed prices, trade deals and an upturn in milk prices could bring a better year.

Disrupting dairy: feed, prices, consolidation and the US industry

As cows burb, they emit the methane produced in their stomach, and this factor makes dairy and beef production responsible for a significant amount of man-made global warming. So the race is on to find solutions to reduce methane emissions in livestock, namely in dairy and beef cattle.

Nutritional strategies to cut methane release in cows

Maintaining biosecurity at the farm-level, educating feed producers about disease risks, continuing to research disease spread and mitigation agents and working together with the government are the steps needed to prevent African Swine Fever (ASF) from entering North America, says expert.

Keeping ASF out of North America

In the second instalment of our new podcast series, Feed Matters, we look back on a decade in global feed manufacturing, with Aidan Connolly, CEO of Cainthus.

‘The next decade will be hugely disruptive in feed production’

Following a year marked by uncertain in feed production and access to international markets, the US feed industry is approaching 2020 with greater optimism.

Building from volatility, US feed industry focus for 2020

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