Seeking to get a strong handle on the situation, the EU banned the use of animal proteins in farm feed in 2000 because of heightened public concern over BSE. According to the EU's advisory European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), new tests set up to confirm protein varieties contained in feed should effectively allow pig meal to be included in feed for chickens and vice versa. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease', has been the target of European...

Rising commodities prices played a role in driving many ordinary citizens to join the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 that ended in the tragic massacre. According to biologists, more than 90 percent of the energy is wasted when photosynthates are consumed by herbivores and then by carnivores later in the food chain. You can feed seven people with the grain it takes to produce enough beef for one person, he argued. Many countries have turned to producing ethanol made from corn in an...

Each acre of double-stacked seed, which contains two technologies, counts as two acres, while an acre of triple-stacked seed counts as three acres. Monsanto, the world's biggest developer of biotech crops, adds genes to corn, soybeans, cotton and canola to make them resistant to Roundup weed killer. corn-seed sales jumped as much as 5 percentage points, marking the largest gain and the sixth consecutive year the company has grabbed revenue from rivals such as DuPont co. Rising ethanol...

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Several cattleman's college sessions at this year's short course will focus on managing a ranch so that cattle harvest more of the forage themselves. The nutritional management session will be centered on supplemental feeding programs for the cow-calf and stocker producer. A general session will include discussions of the cattle market outlook, the beef industry of the future, and emerging cattle markets. The goal should be to reduce the amount of hay or supplemental feed without...