MANILA, Philippines - Are you aware that despite last year’s corn supply shortage and high prices, feed millers and livestock raisers managed to stabilize prices of animal feeds, poultry and pork prices to the delight of consumers due to zero-tariff import of Australian feed wheat, a corn substitute, as a result of our county’s signing of the ASEAN Australia New Zealand Free Trade Agreement in 2010?
Did you know that a special enzyme from algae, when used as feed supplement, can significantly improve feed intake of chickens, enabling them to gain body weight faster and thus offering additional opportunities to poultry raisers and commercial broiler farmers?
If you want to buy goats for herd build-up but the seller doesn’t have any record of how old the animals are, do you know a simple way to determine their approximate age?
Find out about these topics and other interesting subjects in the latest issue of Livestock and Meat Business (LaMB) Philippines magazine, which is now off the press and available to the public for only P100 per copy (pick up, Quezon City).
LaMB is a specialized agribusiness magazine published by Farm Media Development Enterprises, a private outfit of Fermin Diaz, a director of Philippine Agricultural Journalists (PAJ) Inc.
The magazine comes out every other month. It covers grains, feeds and feed milling, veterinary health and animal nutrition, poultry and livestock, meat processing and meat trade, cold chain and logistics, and allied industries. For subscription and ad placement inquiries, e-mail at fmdenterprise@yahoo.com or call (02) 912-7657 or 0929-979-0103.