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Butyrate supplementation to gestating sows and piglets induces muscle and adipose tissue oxidative genes and improves growth performance

Weaned pigs often experience growth reduction immediately after weaning due to multiple stress factors associated with weaning. The study tested the effect of prenatal and postnatal butyrate supplementation on growth performance of piglets.
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Watt World Feed Panorama: A year of resilience for the feed industry

After a year fraught with droughts and market upheavals, this year's World Feed Panorama shows that on a global scale, things might not be as bad for compound feed production as one might expect.
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Global Poultry Trends: world egg production sets a record despite slower growth

World egg production will likely reach a record 65.5 million tonnes in 2013 despite the rate of growth having slowed, writes Terry Evans, industry watcher. Twenty per cent of all eggs are produced in the Americas.
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