Both quality and economic parameters can be significantly improved by modernisation and the optimisation of resources. István Farkas has been rearing chickens since 1990. His business has been rearing broilers for Hungerit Zrt. since 2015, with an annual output of 2.5 million broilers. Four production units...
The contamination of plants and crops with moulds has been a long standing problem in agriculture. Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites of moulds that decrease yields and the marketability of crops, also causing decreased growth, reproductive disturbances and disease, even mass deaths when fed to...
It’s well known that high producing dairy cows can only keep up rapidly increasing milk production and have enough energy for maintenance by losing bodyweight in the post-partum period. The cow is not able to fulfil the energy requirement of steeply increasing milk production at...
In the previous issue we covered the aspects of housing and nutrition of young breeding animals. This issue focuses on the newborn piglet, since the development of the animals in this phase (from birth until weaning) is a fundamentally important part of pork production. The number...
Horses are prey animals (like most herbivores) which determines the anatomical and psychological evolution of the species and also drives selection in the population. Since horses needed to defend themselves from predators they have evolved to live in herds and developed various types of social...
The economic environment has fundamentally changed the perspectives of swine farmers and the profitability of production in the past few years. ASP, COVID-19, sky-rocketing energy prices and increased feed costs have all contributed to the deepening of the crisis. The ban of ZnO, an additive...
